单词 | pseudography |
释义 | pseudographyn. 1. Writing or a system of writing that is contrary to conventional orthography or usage; false, incorrect, or bad spelling or writing; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode pseudography1573 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 104 See what absurdities thys yl fauoured orthographye, or rather Pseudography, hath ingendred. a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. iv, in Wks. (1640) III To adde a superfluous Letter, as there are too many in our Pseudographie. 1734 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 17 May Shakespeare wanted learning. He was guilty of pseudography, sometimes perhaps designedly. 1736 W. Oldys Life Sir Walter Raleigh (1740) 20 I shall not cavil at the Pseudography thereof [sc. in the original manuscripts]..because I could instance greater Errors of the like Nature, which yet have not excluded Authors from the Reputation of their Compositions. 1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 408 Those who would make our speech bend to what he justly calls our pseudography. 1916 G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans (1946) viii. 333 [The fifteenth and early sixteenth century was] the worst period of tricks in ortho- or pseudography..ever known in English or French till Spelling Reform came in. 1995 Mod. Lang. Stud. 25 30 The ‘vicious’ Pardoner, as an embodiment of Alain de Lille's conflation of sodomy and pseudography in uicium, is portrayed as a man who has disavowed his virility. ΚΠ 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxii. 467 Most absurd Pseudographie is this in Astrologie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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