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Webster 1913 Edition


Parrotry

Par′rot-ry

(păr′rŭt-ry̆)
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Noun.
Servile imitation or repetition.
[R.]
Coleridge.
“The supine parrotry.”
Fitzed. Hall.

Definition 2024


parrotry

parrotry

English

Noun

parrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)

  1. servile imitation or repetition
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    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Surely, if Christian charity did not preclude these charges, the shame of convicted parrotry ought to prevent a man from repeating and republishing a barrister's hints.