Napoleonology
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The study of Napoleon Bonaparte. rare, uncountable
"We cited an instance: a certain profound student, eminent, dynamic and successful lawyer, who had the largest Napoleonic library in the South and was most accomplished in (sic) Napoleonology, or bibliography, could not secure a chair in a public school or college to teach Napoleonic history because he never went through a public school, nor a college, and had no diploma showing a regimented or categoried or set-down number of ‘credits’."
Example
More examples"We cited an instance: a certain profound student, eminent, dynamic and successful lawyer, who had the largest Napoleonic library in the South and was most accomplished in (sic) Napoleonology, or bibliography, could not secure a chair in a public school or college to teach Napoleonic history because he never went through a public school, nor a college, and had no diploma showing a regimented or categoried or set-down number of ‘credits’."
Etymology
From Napoleon + -ology.
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