ˈusherismn. conduct or comportment characteristic of ushers.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun]
scholarism1588
pedantism1592
pedantry1612
scholasticism1797
bluestockingism1812
donnishness1835
donnism1859
pragmaticism1865
usherism1869
pragmatism1895
mandarinism1976
1869 A. J. EllisOn Early Eng. Pronunc. I. vi. 625 That kind of pedantic self-sufficiency which is the true growth of half-enlightened ignorance, and may be termed ‘usherism’.