bovarism
American
[boh-vuh-riz-uhm]
/ ˈboʊ vəˌrɪz əm /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bovarism
First recorded in 1900–05; from French bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1857); see -ism
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