"pseudo-scholarship" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: pseudo-scholarships [plural]
Etymology: pseudo- + scholarship. 19th-century coinage. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pseudo|scholarship}} pseudo- + scholarship Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pseudo-scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural pseudo-scholarships)
  1. (uncountable) Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards Tags: uncountable Hyponyms (publications purported to be scholarly): pseudoscience, pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, pseudo-astronomy, pseudo-linguistics, pseudo-grammar, pseudo-criticism, pseudo-philosophy, pseudo-theology
    Sense id: en-pseudo-scholarship-en-noun-o2FszdBo Categories (other): English terms prefixed with pseudo- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pseudo-: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'publications purported to be scholarly': 81 19
  2. (countable) An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered on a par with a real or standard scholarship Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-pseudo-scholarship-en-noun-Gnfck1Jy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with pseudo-, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pseudo-: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pseudoscholarship Derived forms: pseudo-scholarly, pseudo-scholar

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[…] if we had possessed much more of the patristic history and literature, our pseudo-scholarship, the natural worship of antiquity, and the spirit of prelatic superstition, would only have used them as so many stronger entrenchments […] ('Mr. Cooper's \"Free Church of Ancient Christendom\"', The Monthly Christian spectator, September 1852, p. 518http://books.google.com/books?id=oxw2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA518&dq=pseudo-scholarship&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1900&as_brr=3&cd=5#v=onepage&q=pseudo-scholarship&f=false)"
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          "text": "[…] it still remains difficult for university presidents and boards of control to distinguish between pseudoscholarship and real scholarship in the selection of professors (American Medical Association bulletin, 1910, p. 308)"
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          "text": "[…] sincere but uninformed people can be taken in by the pseudo-scholarship of fundamentalist propagandists. (John C. Dwyer, The word was made flesh: an introduction to the theology of the New Testament, Rowman & Littlefield, 1989, p. 16http://books.google.com/books?id=zmaotdHKVvUC&pg=PA16&dq=pseudo-scholarship&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1980&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1990&as_brr=3&cd=18#v=onepage&q=pseudo-scholarship&f=false)"
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