See posthockery on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "post hoc", "3": "ery" }, "expansion": "post hoc + -ery", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From post hoc + -ery.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "posthockery (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms suffixed with -ery", "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation:", "text": "Despite the dangers of posthockery implicit in the approach that has been taken here, it can cast some light on word-formation which other approaches would not be able to.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62:", "text": "This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive." ], "links": [ [ "post hoc", "post hoc" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(rare) Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive." ], "tags": [ "rare", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "posthockery" }
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