Quidnuncery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering. rare, uncountable

    "The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery."

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"The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery."

Etymology

From quidnunc + -ery.

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