Meaning of owlism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Affected or pretentious wisdom; pompous dullness; bombast.
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2. Owlishness; pompous pseudo-intellectual nature or behavior.
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3. The identification with and/or worship of owls.
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4. Night-owlism.
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Examples

“Their Owlisms, Vulturisms, to an incredible extent, will disappear by and by, their Heroisms only remaining, and the helmet be reduced to something like the size of the head, we hope!”

“But when questioned as to the How? of this splendid proposal, they either belittle the questioner or resort to some vague owlism about the "womb of time."”

“It is rather hard to be told at this time of day that ballot-boxes and extension of the suffrage are included in Mr. Carlyle's catalogue of Shams, and that Messrs. Thompson, Fox, and Co. must even submit to the charge of talking unveractities and owlism.”

“If the happiness of men depended as much upon the efficiency of agencies for the "mental discipline" and "culture" of women as it does upon their housewifely ability, the owlism would have been punched out of a score of very respectable studies long ago.”

“Rather than be found guilty of Owlism, let me venture on a bit and expand on my broad thesis of information management .”

“Verily, Paul, thy prime minister deserved the patent for owlism, but thou were alone, gigantic, a Cleopatran owl-obelisk, needing no support, no philosophy, no schooling at primary institutes, or primeval colleges, -hooting was thy self.”

“The book discusses the habits and rituals of these people-owls and explores the nature of <<owlism>>, which exposes the archaic and occult roots of the 20th century totalitarian systems .”

“The book describes a Northern people who believe the Great Owl to be their totemic ancestor, and explores the customs and rituals of these nocturnal owl-people, and the very nature of "owlism,” an archaic and occult source of twentieth-century ideocratic systems.”

“Her owlism and his larkism are mild forms of circadian-rhythm glitches known as delayed- and advanced- sleep phase syndromes.”

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