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  • noun The act of pontificating

Etymologies

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pontificate +‎ -ion

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Examples

  • His pontification from the side line seems to want to counter a different direction for the country.

    Cheney named Conservative of the Year 2009

  • Today it rates about 20 column inches of print, an editorial and maybe a pontification from the paper's columnist.

    Sound Politics: Last Call 2006

  • The problem, inexpressibly sad as it is to have to say it, is that you're better served to listen to my "pontification" than that of the legitimate Pontiff, because I am, in my very limited way, saying what HE should be saying, but isn't.

    Clarification 2009

  • "The problem, inexpressibly sad as it is to have to say it, is that you're better served to listen to my "pontification" than that of the legitimate Pontiff, because I am, in my very limited way, saying what HE should be saying, but isn't."

    Clarification 2009

  • The problem, inexpressibly sad as it is to have to say it, is that you're better served to listen to my "pontification" than that of the legitimate Pontiff, because I am, in my very limited way, saying what HE should be saying, but isn't.

    Clarification 2009

  • Yeah, the Catholics, with an occasional "pontification" from the official pontificator (that's his job).

    What have these last eight years taught us about institutional religions? 2008

  • A couple of months back, some of you might recall, it was one Young Turk turned Old Guard with an ill-fated article on international SF, a Caesar of dubious pontification that met a Senate of aggravated responses.

    New BSC Review Column Hal Duncan 2010

  • A couple of months back, some of you might recall, it was one Young Turk turned Old Guard with an ill-fated article on international SF, a Caesar of dubious pontification that met a Senate of aggravated responses.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • I find it totally ironic to listen to the pontification of John McCain, who has never, ever in his mediocre political career critically review the issues before jumping on the bandwagon to further his own personal political ambitions.

    McCain: CIA secrecy story just beginning 2009

  • In other words, the USA should clean up in its own backyard before it can justify its pontification attitude to foreign Governments.

    Friends don’t spy on friends 2009

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