anecdotage

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Anecdotage \An"ec*do`tage\, n.
   Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.
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         All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of
         it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of
         lies.                                    --De Quincey.
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