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Mr. Harrower and his coadjutors grew communicative, and vented an infinite quantity of the jargon of dilettanteism upon each other and upon those about them.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Philosophy had degenerated into sophistry, art into dilettanteism, oratory into rhetoric, poetry into versemaking.

From The Life of St. Paul by Stalker, James

All the elegant dilettanteism, the delicious idleness, the luxurious ease, fell away, and were as though they had never been.

From What Answer? by Dickinson, Anna E.

On the part of the senate itself there must be no apathy, no supineness, no dilettanteism, but a stern, vigorous determination stringently and impartially to enforce prompt obedience to its edicts.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

If it keeps the features of dilettanteism and prefers association with the antiscientific tendencies, it is pre-destined to have a spasmodic character and ultimately to be harmful.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo