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lyrisms

lyrisms is the plural of lyrism.

Meaning of lyrism

Noun

lyrism (countable and uncountable, plural lyrisms)

  1. (archaic) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
    • But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Part 8, Chapter 82

Questions about lyrisms

What is lyrisms the plural of?
Lyrisms is the plural of lyrism.

Words near lyrisms in the dictionary

  1. lyrifissure
  2. lyrifissures
  3. lyriform
  4. lyring
  5. lyrism
  6. lyrisms
  7. lyrist
  8. lyrists
  9. lys
  10. lysability
  11. lysable

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