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Elizabethanism

Elizabethanism noun: a word, usage, or linguistic feature particular to the literature of England in the Elizabethan period.

Noun

Elizabethanism (plural Elizabethanisms)

  1. A word, usage, or linguistic feature particular to the literature of England in the Elizabethan period.
    • For the charm of the Elizabethans does not lie in their Elizabethanisms; these are but as the mosses and lichens which Time will grow upon our Victorian literature as surely as he has grown them upon the Elizabethan—upon such of it, at least, as has not been jerry-built.1898, Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose, Preface

Forms of Elizabethanism

pluralElizabethanisms

Origin of Elizabethanism

From Elizabethan + -ism.

Questions about Elizabethanism

What does Elizabethanism mean?
Elizabethanism means a word, usage, or linguistic feature particular to the literature of England in the Elizabethan period.
What part of speech is Elizabethanism?
Elizabethanism is a noun.
What is the plural of Elizabethanism?
The plural of Elizabethanism is Elizabethanisms.

Words near Elizabethanism in the dictionary

  1. Elizabethana
  2. Elizabethanise
  3. Elizabethanised
  4. Elizabethanises
  5. Elizabethanising
  6. Elizabethanism
  7. Elizabethanisms
  8. elizabethanize
  9. elizabethanized
  10. elizabethanizes
  11. elizabethanizing

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