Lexicographical Neighbors of Fogeyism
Literary usage of Fogeyism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of William Osler by William Osler (1921)
"In its illusiveness, and in the disastrous consequences which have often followed
its hunting, old fogeyism is a sort of Snark in the medical profession ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"If it is desirable to start an Old Fogey Club, why should the Old fogeyism which
constitutes a qualification for membership be claimed exclusively for the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"For, open as we feel ourselves to be to the charge of old-fogeyism, we confess
to the weakness of considering the Duke of Wellington and his system to be ..."
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