Terms vs Quidnuncery - What's the difference?
terms | quidnuncery |
(rare) Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
* 1901 , Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work
* 1968 , Frederic Everett Faverty, The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research?
As nouns the difference between terms and quidnuncery
is that terms is while quidnuncery is (rare) behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.quidnuncery
English
Noun
(-)- 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 .
- Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery , is as much a work of fiction...
