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Spenserisms

Spenserisms is the plural of Spenserism.

Meaning of Spenserism

Noun

Spenserism (plural Spenserisms)

  1. A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
    • The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4

Questions about Spenserisms

What is Spenserisms the plural of?
Spenserisms is the plural of Spenserism.

Words near Spenserisms in the dictionary

  1. Spenserian stanzas
  2. Spenseriana
  3. Spenserianism
  4. Spenserians
  5. Spenserism
  6. Spenserisms
  7. spenses
  8. spensive
  9. Spensonian
  10. spent
  11. spent a penny

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