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cobwebbery en · NOUN

Etymology

From cobweb + -ery.

Meanings

1. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
   • Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily. 1878, The Literary World, volume 9, page 43:
   • 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 […]? 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):

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