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Hardyisms

Hardyisms is the plural of Hardyism.

Meaning of Hardyism

Noun

Hardyism (countable and uncountable, plural Hardyisms)

  1. An attitude or utterance characteristic of the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
    • This would be considered a typical Hardyism, but he was an old man then and his mind was in the past more than in the present, and he had heard that morning of the death of one of his oldest friends.2017, Martin Ray, Thomas Hardy Remembered

Questions about Hardyisms

What is Hardyisms the plural of?
Hardyisms is the plural of Hardyism.

Words near Hardyisms in the dictionary

  1. Hardyan
  2. Hardyesque
  3. hardyhead
  4. hardyheads
  5. Hardyism
  6. Hardyisms
  7. Hardys
  8. Hardys Bay
  9. Hardyston
  10. hardystonite
  11. hare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hardyisms (page history and authors); Hardyism (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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