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Scrutiny
Scrutiny, a Cambridge periodical which ran for 19 volumes, 1932–53, edited by L. C. Knights, Donald Culver, Denys Thompson, D. W. Harding, and others, but dominated largely by F. R. Leavis; a 20th issue, with a ‘Retrospect’ by Leavis, appeared in 1963. Its contributors include Q. D. Leavis, H. A. Mason, E. Rickword, and D. A. Traversi. It published little creative work of importance, with the exception of the posthumous poems of Rosenberg, but was an important vehicle for the views of the new Cambridge school of criticism, and published many seminal essays, particularly in the pre-war years, on J. Austen, Shakespeare, Marvell, etc. Its critical standards proved less illuminating when applied to contemporary writing; it ignored most of Orwell, dismissed G. Greene, Dylan Thomas, and most of V. Woolf and in later years attacked the reputations of Spender and Auden, both of whom had been originally greeted as heralds of a Poetic Renascence which, by 1940, Leavis declared not to have taken place. Leavis deplored the lack of support that this indisputably important periodical had received and he blamed the British Council, the BBC, the ‘intellectuals of literary journalism’, etc., for its demise.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Scrutiny.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Scrutiny.html |
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scrutiny. The formal testing of catechumens before their Baptism in the early Church. The 1972 RC Order for Adult Baptism includes three ‘scrutinies’ of catechumens; these comprise a homily, prayers, and laying on of hands after the Gospel in the Eucharist on certain Sundays in Lent. The word is used also for the examination of candidates for Holy Orders.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-scrutiny.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "scrutiny." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-scrutiny.html |
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scru·ti·ny / ˈskroōtn-ē/ • n. (pl. -nies) critical observation or examination: every aspect of local government was placed under scrutiny. |
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"scrutiny." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "scrutiny." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-scrutiny.html "scrutiny." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-scrutiny.html |
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scrutiny
•blini, cine, Finney, finny, Ginny, guinea, hinny, mini, Minnie, ninny, pinny, Pliny, shinny, skinny, spinney, tinny, whinny
•kidney, Sidney, Sydney
•chimney
•jitney, Whitney
•Disney
•aborigine, polygeny, polygyny
•androgyny, homogeny, misogyny, progeny
•Gemini
•niminy-piminy, Rimini
•dominie, hominy, Melpomene
•ignominy • Panini • larceny • telecine
•satiny • destiny • mountainy
•mutiny, scrutiny
•briny, Heine, liny, piny, shiny, spiny, tiny, whiny
•sunshiny
•Bonnie, bonny, Connie, johnny, Lonnie, Ronnie, Suwannee
•Rodney
•Cockney, Procne
•Romney • Novotný • Grozny
•brawny, corny, horny, lawny, mulligatawny, scrawny, tawny, thorny
•Orkney • Courtney
•brownie, browny, downy, townie
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"scrutiny." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "scrutiny." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-scrutiny.html "scrutiny." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-scrutiny.html |
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