Dear Quix, if you go back and read my posts, I explained the term several times. Besides which, I see you had no difficulty in finding a suitable definition. People look up the terms other people use all the time. I do. So, if you call my use of that term snootiness, haughty, linguistic upmanship, elitist ... I guess that is up to you. That is the term. What can I say?
You also wrote:
“Snooty flinging of rare terms about without their definitions is not admirable; not loving; not gracious.”
Dare I say that this is a subjective and rather emotional response ... one better, perhaps, said in another way.
You’re a smart guy. But you, like all the rest of us, don’t know everything. You seem to have little fear of wandering into areas of theology and history where, maybe, just maybe, there are some things you aren’t aware of. Sometimes these things have been pointed out to you, gently and graciously.
Think what you will. Do as you will.
I’ve often been self-deprecating about my own lack of knowledge.
I probably admit being wrong on FR more than the next 10 contenders combined by a wide margin.
I don’t know that I have anything to add about the term and your use of it in this thread.
Cheers.