scholarly term

What was, not long ago, a scholarly term used to describe an ideology that holds that the U.S. was founded as—and should be governed as—an explicitly Christian nation has been reclaimed as an identity.

It's "intersubjectively" real, to use a scholarly term.

"I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery."

"By genie, I presume you mean a Jinnee, which is the more correct and scholarly term," said the Professor.