How To Use Mumpsimus In A Sentence
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I Googled "mumpsimus" after reading this story b/c I thought it'd be a better name for my blog than "farragos".
In a Name
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I just don't see anything cute or cuddly about a mumpsimus or a bigot; I've spent too much of my life having to deal with real people like that.
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His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for
The Age of the Reformation
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The danger of reading a novel primarily for the opportunity to "identify" with its characters -- as well as to interpret their actions by judging them on moral grounds -- seems well-illustrated by this guest review at The Mumpsimus of Susann Cokal's Breath and Bones (Unbridled Books).
Narrative Strategies
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I also hoped the title might cause some people to look up and thinking about the definition of the word "mumpsimus", the choice of which was a coy way for me to try to avoid all presumptions of accuracy from the get-go.
We Who are About To...
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Although "mumpsimus" is the very motto for the Russian schismatics, and although ignorance and superstition were the root of the matter, they combined with a dread of arbitrary change by an arbitrary power, and supplied a basis for resistance to Erastianism and the fusion of Church and State.
Lectures on Modern history
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It isn't nice to tar us with the same brush and make us appear to be mumpsimuses like yourself.
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These dealers and collectors are real mumpsimuses about it, just like those who misuse the word ‘stub’.
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On August 18, 2003, I wrote the first post of this blog, a definition of the word "mumpsimus".
Five Years
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*Pronunciation is another thing entirely; I have discovered over the past few years that, despite its phoneticity, actually saying the word "mumpsimus" is quite difficult for most people.
In a Name
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he still holds to the old mumpsimus that a woman's place is in the kitchen
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At one time or another, all journalists run the risk of being mumpsimuses - if there is such a word.
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he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus
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But Edward is a hotter little reformist than Elizabeth, who abides strictly by her father's middle way and says'taking Henry's words from his last speech to Parliament'that she will be neither 'mumpsimus' nor 'sumpsimus' but worship God without argument.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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We've all got a bit of a mumpsimus in us in some way shape or form don't we?