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Definition of Pococurantism
1. n. Carelessness; apathy; indifference.
Definition of Pococurantism
1. Noun. Nonchalance, indifference. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pococurantism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pococurantism
Literary usage of Pococurantism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"His refusal was dictated by the same pococurantism, now inveterate and reinforced
by failing health, which he had twice before exhibited. ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The pococurantism of the upper classes, a baleful inheritance from distant
generations of Teutonic settlers, was to be the curse of Italy. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"Cruelty and Chaucer are absolute strangers ; indeed, the absence of it has brought
upon him from rather short-sighted persons the charge of pococurantism, ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The pococurantism of the upper classes, a baleful inheritance from distant
generations of Teutonic settlers, was to be the curse of Italy. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"Lord Campbell, however, very characteristically takes a different view of this
pococurantism on the part of Lord Lyndhurst in matters relating to himself. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... expressing gracefully, according to the model of this epoch, the stoical
pococurantism which is required of the cultivated Englishman. ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... thought himself in Paradise—no wonder that Fane felt attached to the Heronry—no
wonder that Lady Lee felt a shock given to her acquired pococurantism. ..."
8. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"His refusal was dictated by the same pococurantism, now inveterate and reinforced
by failing health, which he had twice before exhibited. ..."
9. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The pococurantism of the upper classes, a baleful inheritance from distant
generations of Teutonic settlers, was to be the curse of Italy. ..."
10. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"Cruelty and Chaucer are absolute strangers ; indeed, the absence of it has brought
upon him from rather short-sighted persons the charge of pococurantism, ..."
11. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The pococurantism of the upper classes, a baleful inheritance from distant
generations of Teutonic settlers, was to be the curse of Italy. ..."
12. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"Lord Campbell, however, very characteristically takes a different view of this
pococurantism on the part of Lord Lyndhurst in matters relating to himself. ..."
13. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... expressing gracefully, according to the model of this epoch, the stoical
pococurantism which is required of the cultivated Englishman. ..."
14. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... thought himself in Paradise—no wonder that Fane felt attached to the Heronry—no
wonder that Lady Lee felt a shock given to her acquired pococurantism. ..."
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