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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After the Tuscan mariners transformed; a Latinism, meaning, after the transformation of the Tuscan mariners.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
Note the Latinism "threatened his heads," and the imperfect rhyme "brands."
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
What Latinism did, however, was to teach the appreciation of the dignity of time, the beauty of the passing years, and their enriching effect on things and men.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
Infámous, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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 Hamilton Wright Mabie
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