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单词 attorneyism
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attorneyismn.

Etymology: See -ism suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: aˈttorneyism.
The practice of attorneys, or that attributed to the ‘rascally attorney’; unscrupulous cleverness. (Vituperative.)
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attorneyism1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. v. 424 Vanish, then, thou rat-eyed Incarnation of Attorneyism.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ix. 128 Instinctively abhorrent of attorneyism and the swindler element.
1884 Sat. Rev. 28 June 835/2 The peculiarity, however, of that kind of cleverness which..is called attorneyism, is that it frequently overreaches itself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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