"goblinry" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "goblin + -ry",
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        {
          "text": "tales of goblinry"
        },
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          "text": "1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276,\nBut is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?"
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          "ref": "1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “La Guiablesse”, in Two Years in the French West Indies, New York: Harper, page 185",
          "text": "These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars....",
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          "ref": "1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, published 1988, page 254",
          "text": "There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.",
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        "The doings or character of goblins."
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  "etymology_text": "goblin + -ry",
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          "text": "1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276,\nBut is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?"
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          "text": "These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars....",
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