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wordmongering en · NOUN

Etymology

From wordmonger + -ing.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of wordmongery.
   • Ignorance implies real indifference, however copious the wordmongering. 1849, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, A View of the Art of Colonization, page 9:
   • Powers are seeking as before to drown the problem of disarmament in endless and futile wordmongering. 1961, United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Documents on Disarmament, page 352:
   • Melville "repels" here; he is guilty of "wordmongering," prolixity, and recourse to "marvellous" yarns that erode what is usefully "probable" in the narrative. 2008, Harold Bloom, Herman Melville:

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Synonyms

wordmongery