Meaning of cobwebbery | Babel Free

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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