Newsmongery

[S]ince one told one's intimate friend all that one knew,—and often a great deal that one didn't know,—the tale-bearing, and news, and so on, of one god's-sib to another began itself to be called god's-sib or gossip, until now, when all manner of scandal and news[-]mongery has come to be universally called gossip.

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Instead, the Age declared, of 'merely noticing the misdemeanour, which would have been the course most consonant not only with public decency, but also with public justice, they gloat on it as a kind of god-send in newsmongery and recur to it with most damnable iteration'.

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Take care of gospel gossiping, of inquiring about places and individuals, merely for the sake of newsmongery.

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However, while signifying Mr. B's wealth and enhancing the significance of Pamela's marriage, this sizable downstairs population could also be perceived by the contemporaries as a hotbed for newsmongery and a network of guerrilla spies routinely invading the master's privacy.

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