fogyism

The indisputable tendency of farmers and their wives to age so rapidly, and so early to fall into the ranks of "fogyism," is due far more to lack of variety and recreation and to dearth of intellectual stimulus than to hard labor, severe as this often is.

New Ideals in Rural Schools George Herbert Betts 1901

Negroism, "fogyism," and like epithets are too often directed to those who become animated, or rather happy, under the sound of the gospel.

Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896

But to suggest that a talented young reporter can't produce Page 1 journalism sounds to me like a case of creeping old fogyism.

CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2007 2007

His old fogyism showed up unmistakably in a short but heated argument they had had on the subject of chloroform.

Australia Felix 2003

But three kids, out of school and immediately bored, plus two teenaged houseguests, put the brakes on our budding old-fogyism in sharp order.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2003

We can look forward to accomplish any labor, however difficult, but lack the conservatism which preserves the fruit of our labors -- the "old fogyism" which puts on its spectacles with most careful adjustment, after wiping the glasses for a clear sight, and at stated periods, revises its affairs to see if some screw has not worked loose.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

The system which I adopted long ago, and to which I still adhere (not on account of "old fogyism," but for want of better), is as follows: I have two varnishes which I want to put into competition to test their relative merits.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

For these reasons that nicely graduated mean between political recklessness and national old fogyism, which alone guarantees an enduring progress, is the object of search to all disinterested political reformers.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

When articles by these opponents to suffrage appeared, the argument of youth hardly held good; and the attacks of the suffragists were quickly shifted to the ground of “narrow-mindedness and old-fashioned fogyism.

Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage 1921

This latter contains some skilful parody on old fogyism.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914