Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anecdotes considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anecdotes collectively; matter of the nature of anecdotes.
- noun [Humorously taken as anecdote +
age , with a further allusion to dotage.] Old age characterized by senile garrulousness and fondness for telling anecdotes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
anecdotes considered as a group
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Examples
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Disraeli called our "anecdotage," give us a break.
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"anecdotage," his pipe was his best listener and his truest confidant.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Forgive the personal anecdotage, but be assured I will not go as far as Eurosport's Chris Bradman, commentator at the French Open, who warned of the dangers of Novak Djokovic's gluten‑free diet.
Sky, ITV and my daughter all agree: Barcelona are quite good | Martin Kelner 2011
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Via such bleak yet vivid anecdotage did the film manage to paint a detailed, compelling and sympathetic portrait of a town ground down by poverty and a populace clearly drinking to forget.
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But Doherty brought an old-fashioned Friars Club polish to rock-and-roll anecdotage.
The Other Papa 2007
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But Doherty brought an old-fashioned Friars Club polish to rock-and-roll anecdotage.
The Other Papa 2007
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American free-verse anecdotage has very little in common with the Romantic poets themselves; rather it distorts and magnifies one feature of that era, to the point of unfortunate caricature.
By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Anyone who cares about that subject, or who perhaps has a continuing experience of its joys and displeasures, will find the three-hundredth-anniversary turn toward Johnson's brilliance as an author quite welcome, for he has been too long covered in anecdotage and too long unread by the public.
The Powers of Dr. Johnson O'Hagan, Andrew 2009
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But Doherty brought an old-fashioned Friars Club polish to rock-and-roll anecdotage.
The Other Papa 2007
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But Doherty brought an old-fashioned Friars Club polish to rock-and-roll anecdotage.
The Other Papa 2007
seanahan commented on the word anecdotage
I'd never heard this word before and when reading the entry on anecdotic thought of it. Apparently I'm not the first.
September 20, 2009
sionnach commented on the word anecdotage
It's what your grandpa has reached.
September 20, 2009