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noun
Poetry or literature, especially that which is excessively proper or moralist; literature by or in the style of Henry T. Tuckerman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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History
Coined in or around 1848 by Edgar Alan Poe as tuckermanities (see quote below) from the name of Henry Theodore Tuckerman, an American author, plus -ity. Compare humanities.
