donnishness

It is sufficient to say that Harvey had all the worst traits of "donnishness," without having apparently any notion of that dignity which sometimes half excuses the don.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

"donnishness" seem to have acquired their uncomplimentary meaning about this period.

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

Among them are the Magistrate, whose clipped tones most certainly do "not invite debate," and the Padre, whose voice is perfectly balanced between donnishness and clerical sing-song.

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Edinburgh for that, -- a vast amount of toryism and donnishness everywhere.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

He instinctively shut up before literary display, and pomp and donnishness of manner, faults which always will beset academical notabilities.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends.

Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852

Overflowing with affection to his friends, and showing it in all kinds of unconventional and unexpected instances, keeping to the last a kind of youthful freshness as if he had never yet realised that he was not a boy, and shrunk from the formality and donnishness of grown-up life, he was the most refined and thoughtful of gentlemen, and in the midst of the fierce party battles of his day, with all his strong feeling of the tremendous significance of the strife, always a courteous and considerate opponent.

Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852

The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.”

Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915