ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cobwebbery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Cobwebbery is a noun meaning (chiefly figuratively) A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.
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 […]?

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Related dictionary entries include cobwebbiness, copweb, cobweb, cobwebsite, cobhouse, cobful.

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