Hibernicism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Hibernicism
1750–60; < Medieval Latin Hibernic ( us ) Hibernian ( Hibern ( ia ) Hibernia + -icus -ic ) + -ism
Example Sentences
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And this fine impressibility of nature, which needs no statistics, when it is combined with genius,—if we may be pardoned an Hibernicism which almost writes itself,—may be said to create its own statistics.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
The monotype machine is, to use a Hibernicism, two machines, which, though quite separate and unrelated, are yet mutually interdependent and necessary the one to the other.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.
“Would a duck swim?” said I, using an expressive Hibernicism.
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
Not that they loved society less, but solitude more; especially, to use a Hibernicism, when that solitude was shared.
From An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by Wetherald, A. Ethelwyn
Mr. PALMER:—Does not the gentleman's amendment involve an Hibernicism?
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
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