cobwebbery

Definitions

A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.

countable, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch⟳ any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?”

“Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear⟳ so readily.”

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