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nounDunciad (plural Dunciads)
plural Dunciads
- Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.
1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers1 more example
The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.
1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets
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Dunciad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dunciad
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