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
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M. Magne, it is true, attributes this change not so much to the pedantic Latinism of the Duc de Montausier, and the hair-splitting of the academicians, as to the decay produced by gaiety itself.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
Whatever Toni had told him of Latinism and Mediterranean civilization, he now accepted as great truths.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Infámous, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
On the busiest thoroughfares in the city, just in the busiest part, between two of the most crowded and conservative of cross-streets, lies this alley of Latinism.
From Violets and Other Tales by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Elsewhere the dogmatic summary of Hume's "Essays" illustrates the lingering eighteenth-century Latinism that had been previously travestied in the more stilted passages of the letters of Burns.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
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