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English
Etymology
From beadle + -dom.
Noun
beadledom (countable and uncountable, plural beadledoms)
- Beadles collectively, and their characteristics as a class.
- Stupid or senseless officiousness.
Quotations
- 1955, William Gaddis, The Recognitions, page 320
- But there was more to it than gross tyranny of business enterprise; and advertising, whose open chancres gaped everywhere, only a symptom of the great disease, this plague of newness, this febrile, finally paretic seizure dictated by a beadledom of time monitored by clocks, observatories, signals on the radio, the recorded voice of a woman (dead or alive) who dissected the latest minute on the telephone when you dialed NERVOUS.