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His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.

From Time Magazine Archive

He instinctively shut up before literary display, and pomp and donnishness of manner, faults which always will beset academical notabilities.

From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

The terms "don" and "donnishness" seem to have acquired their uncomplimentary meaning about this period.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

It is sufficient to say that Harvey had all the worst traits of "donnishness," without having apparently any notion of that dignity which sometimes half excuses the don.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

If the absurdities of donnishness are all too fair a mark for the undergraduate wit, the Vice-Chancellor has found a very serviceable scapegoat.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John