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Elizabethanisms

Elizabethanisms is the plural of Elizabethanism.

Meaning of Elizabethanism

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

Questions about Elizabethanisms

What is Elizabethanisms the plural of?
Elizabethanisms is the plural of Elizabethanism.

Words near Elizabethanisms in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Elizabethanisms (page history and authors); Elizabethanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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