Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The holding of sinecures; a state of society or affairs in which sinecures are of frequent occurrence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of having a sinecure.
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- noun The state of having a
sinecure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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This was a torch thrown into a powder magazine -- all was explosion; the church, the noblesse, and the monarchy were suddenly extinguished, and France saw this man of long views and powerful passions, suddenly raised from hunger and obscurity, to the highest rank and the richest sinecurism of the republic.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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