Cobwebbery

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"

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"When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"

Etymology

From cobweb + -ery.

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