quidnuncery

English

Etymology

quidnunc +‎ -ery

Noun

quidnuncery (uncountable)

1. (rare) Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
   • 1901, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work:

     The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery.

   • 1968, Frederic Everett Faverty, The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research:

     Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery, is as much a work of fiction...