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cobwebbery (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cobwebberies)

1. (chiefly figuratively) A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Carlyle かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)
     When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?
   • 1878, The Literary World (volume 9, page 43)
     Much of the cobwebbery of superstition, ancient and modern, is readily brushed away by this confident and sure hand; but there are other facts, facts of Christian consciousness, which do not, from our standpoint, disappear so readily.

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