topsy-turvification

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Yet in order to show all this she has to be an adulteress first -- in obedience to this mysterious modernisation and topsy-turvification of ancient Babylonian custom, and the _jus primae noctis_, and the proverb as to second thoughts being best, and Heaven or the other place knows what else.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
Now, tell me, distinguished master, what hopes could I still have in a struggle against the general topsy-turvification of all genuine aims for education; with what courage can I, a single teacher, step forward, when I know that the moment any seeds of real culture are sown, they will be mercilessly crushed by the roller of this pseudo-culture?

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872