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adoxography

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11 lettersPronunciation /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfi/Part of speech nounSorted aadghooprxyStarts with AEnds with Y0 clues
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  1. fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects

Word origin

From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) (from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “writing”).

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  • Even Lucian's most playful exercises in adoxography, such as the Iudicium Vocalium or the Musica, can be rewritten and integrated into serious debate on contemporary issues.
  • The Voyage is kaleidoscopic composite of dream-vision, ideal journey, literary testament, adoxography, and mock epic.
  • The common factor among all three authors is the indulgence in paradox: the courtesan represents a notional ‘opposite’ to the intellectual, and therefore scholarship on courtesans has an air of ‘adoxography’ about it.

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