Recent Examples on the WebMuch as Oswald Spengler had elevated the brooding schwarmerei of German café philosophers into a treatise, so Jünger took the rote form of the regimental memoir and affixed a bayonet to it.—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
German Schwärmerei, from schwärmen to be enthusiastic, literally, to swarm
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