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philosophisms

philosophisms is the plural of philosophism.

Meaning of philosophism

Noun

philosophism (countable and uncountable, plural philosophisms)

  1. spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
    • French Philosophism has arisen; in which little word how much do we include! Here, indeed, lies properly the cardinal symptom of the whole wide-spread malady. Faith is gone out; Scepticism is come in.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Questions about philosophisms

What is philosophisms the plural of?
Philosophisms is the plural of philosophism.

Words near philosophisms in the dictionary

  1. philosophisers
  2. philosophises
  3. philosophising
  4. philosophisings
  5. philosophism
  6. philosophisms
  7. philosophist
  8. philosophistic
  9. philosophistical
  10. philosophists
  11. philosophizability

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