Gradgrindery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Impatient technical pedantry that dismisses human factors, especially regarding education. uncountable
    — For others, the process of reducing words to numbers is like sucking the life out of language, a remorseless exercise in Gradgrindery whose limited worldview masquerades as objectivity and universal truth.

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Etymology tree
English Gradgrind
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English Gradgrindery
From Gradgrind + -ery.
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