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posthockery en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English post hoc Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English posthockery From post hoc + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
    • This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism. 1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62:
    • Despite the dangers of posthockery implicit in the approach that has been taken here, it can cast some light on word-formation which other approaches would not be able to. 1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation: