adoxography

Definitions of adoxography
  1. noun
    fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects
    “Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things”
    “adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers”
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    type of:
    authorship, composition, penning, writing
    the act of creating written works
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