Antidisestablishmentarianism

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antidisestablishmentarianism - Wiktionary

Said by Weekley to be first recorded in Gladstone's "Church and State", in reference to a scheme directed against the Church of England. From establishment in the sense of the ecclesiastical system established by law; the Church of England.

Sandhill Trek: Antidisestablishmentarianism

This word is a piece of childhood trivia accepted at face value without a deeper look. I'm sure that by the third or fourth grade every kid with a piece of dirty white adhesive tape binding the bow of his black plastic framed glasses knew the answer to the question, "What's the longest word in the dictionary?" This was a priori knowledge, somehow - a revealed truth undocumented by a thorough-going analysis or comparison, but a truth that stood alone based on the fact that just looking at it you knew that this was one long motherjumping word. Nobody ever referred to the monstrous "floccinaucinihilipilification," mainly - I believe - because it is unpronounceable, but also because it is meaningless.

Liberal England: Antidisestablishmentarianism

It's the longest word in the English language and I think it describes the position I am about to take here,

There is a certain style of politics - common in Lib Dem circles but by no means confined to them - which I have come increasingly to reject. It involves speculating at an abstract theoretical level about what an ideal constitution would look like, how schools should be organised or the proper relations between church and state.

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