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Adoxography Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ography

Adoxography has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects

"Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"

"adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers"

2

Fine writing on a minor or trivial subject.

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Rhyming Words
sophy hyphy dunphy trophy brophy furphy graphy ralphy prophy oomphy morphy osophy adelphy atrophy rrhaphy ecosophy mcmurphy geosophy algraphy eutrophy
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