Iricism
Americannoun
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"In what, my dear boy?—To make your complaint English, you must say deficient in some thing or other—'tis an Iricism to say in general that you are very deficient."
From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
The fumes of interest had so clouded his rhetoric, that he falls into a downright Iricism.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
There is a great fracas in Ireland in a noble family or two, heightened by a pretty strong circumstance of Iricism.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
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