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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
adoxography is a noun meaning "fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects". It carries one recorded sense.
fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects
“Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things”
“adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adoxography come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.