quidnuncery
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quidnuncery (uncountable)
- (rare) Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
- 1901, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work:
- The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery.
- 1968, Frederic Everett Faverty, The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research:
- Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery, is as much a work of fiction...