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charlatanry|ˈʃɑːlətənrɪ|
[a. F. charlatanerie, ad. It. ciarlataneria: see prec. and -ry.]
Action which bespeaks a charlatan; quackery, imposture.
(More contemptuous than the prec., and referring more to actual practice.)
1638Divine & Pol. Observ. fr. Dutch 54 The shift he useth could not have saved another man from imputation of impudency and charlatanery. 1656Blount Glossogr., Charlatanerie, cousening or gulling speech, cogging, lying. 1766H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 327, [I] do not even envy you Rousseau, who has all the charlatanerie of Count St. Germain to make himself singular and talked of. 1869Sir J. T. Coleridge Mem. Keble 374 Rules like these..to guard against direct swindling, and charlataneries. |