Iricism
Americannoun
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The sentiment, then, which animated the earlier efforts of the Parliament might be Iricism, but did not become patriotism until it had outgrown, and had learned to forswear or to forget, the conditions of its infancy.
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The fumes of interest had so clouded his rhetoric, that he falls into a downright Iricism.—He tells the King, that the intended tax on the proprietors of land will affect the property not only of the rich, but of the poor.
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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."
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The fumes of interest had so clouded his rhetoric, that he falls into a downright Iricism.
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There is a great fracas in Ireland in a noble family or two, heightened by a pretty strong circumstance of Iricism.
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