Latinism
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Latinism
From the Medieval Latin word latīnismus, dating back to 1560–70. See Latin, -ism
Example Sentences
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Latinism, as a creed, is dead, or dying.
From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
A tone of oracular authority, an academic Latinism sometimes disregarding the limitations of the unlearned reader, an elaborate balancing of antitheses in the same period,--these are qualities which the two writers have in common.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Infámous, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
After the Tuscan mariners transformed; a Latinism, meaning, after the transformation of the Tuscan mariners.
From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John
This Latinism of honestum even the literal inelegance of Davidson had spirit enough to translate, "Where'er the god hath moved around his graceful head."
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
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