pontification

[pɒn,tɪfɪ'keɪʃən]
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英文词源


pontification (n.)
1520s, "office of a bishop," noun of action from past participle stem of Medieval Latin pontificare (see pontificate (v.)). Meaning "something pontificated" is from 1925.

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