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Shakspeareanism

Shakspeareanism is the archaic form of Shakespeareanism.

Meaning of Shakespeareanism

Noun

Shakespeareanism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespeareanisms)

  1. (uncountable) The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare.
    • I thee tell, Woman: our Son is become lost to Shakespeareanism and Latin, all but unwilling to be a Typesetter as his Father.
  2. (countable) A term coined by Shakespeare, or otherwise derived from his works.
    • It is said that the English language has over 1,700 Shakespereanisms.
  3. (uncountable) Shakespeare's works collectively.
    • A small number of persons has ever perused Shakespeareanism in its entirety.

Forms of Shakspeareanism

pluralShakspeareanisms

Questions about Shakspeareanism

What is Shakspeareanism the archaic form of?
Shakspeareanism is the archaic form of Shakespeareanism.

Words near Shakspeareanism in the dictionary

  1. shaksheers
  2. shakshouka
  3. shakshuka
  4. Shakspeare
  5. Shakspearean
  6. Shakspeareanism
  7. Shakspeareanisms
  8. Shakspearian
  9. Shakspearianism
  10. Shakspearianisms
  11. Shakspearism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shakspeareanism (page history and authors); Shakespeareanism (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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