Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mountebankery .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practices of a
mountebank ;mountebankery .
Etymologies
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mountebank + -ism
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Examples
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The spirit of mountebankism overshadows the spirit of the mighty man, and his very relics are rendered ridiculous.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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Of course the Emperor was sincere and conscientious in all this mountebankism, but he was a menace and a blighting danger all the same.
All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Joseph Hocking 1898
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The arrogance, the self-glory, the mountebankism of the order aroused all the fighting spirit of the old Trelawneys.
All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Joseph Hocking 1898
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