Entmoot
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.
"‘The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.’ A similar scene is described in chapter vii of William Morris's The House of the Wolfings, entitled ‘The folk-mote of the Mark-men’. This kind of compound is imitated in Tolkien's word entmoot, the great gathering of ents at which the decision is (very gradually) taken to destroy Isengard. Many members of the Tolkien Society are also familiar with the considerably livelier event known as ‘Oxonmoot’—the Society's annual gathering in Oxford."
Example
More examples"‘The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.’ A similar scene is described in chapter vii of William Morris's The House of the Wolfings, entitled ‘The folk-mote of the Mark-men’. This kind of compound is imitated in Tolkien's word entmoot, the great gathering of ents at which the decision is (very gradually) taken to destroy Isengard. Many members of the Tolkien Society are also familiar with the considerably livelier event known as ‘Oxonmoot’—the Society's annual gathering in Oxford."
Etymology
ent + moot, referring to the lengthy deliberations of the ents in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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