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Shaksperianism

Shaksperianism 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 Shaksperianism

pluralShaksperianisms

Questions about Shaksperianism

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

Words near Shaksperianism in the dictionary

  1. Shakspearism
  2. Shakspearisms
  3. Shakspere
  4. Shaksperean
  5. Shaksperian
  6. Shaksperianism
  7. Shaksperianisms
  8. Shaksperism
  9. Shaksperisms
  10. shakt
  11. Shakta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shaksperianism (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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