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- Adoxography comment "Adoxography is a term coined in the late 19th century, and means \"fine writing on a trivial or base subject\". It was a form of rhetorical exercise \"in which the legitimate methods of the encomium are applied to persons or objects in themselves obviously unworthy of praise, as being trivial, ugly, useless, ridiculous, dangerous or vicious\" — see Arthur S. Pease, \"Things Without Honor\", Classical Philology, Vol. XXI (1926) 27, at 28–9.".