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Webster 1913 Edition

(păr′rŭt-ry̆)

Noun.

Servile imitation or repetition.

[R.]

Coleridge.

“The supine parrotry.”

Fitzed. Hall.

parrotry ‎(usually uncountable, plural parrotries)

servile imitation or repetition
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fitzed. Hall to this entry?)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Surely, if Christian charity did not preclude these charges, the shame of convicted parrotry ought to prevent a man from repeating and republishing a barrister's hints.