Definition of "parrotry"

This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry.

1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 3

The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].

1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2