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名詞

quidnuncery (uncountable)

1. (まれに) 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...