Etymology
Origin of quixotism
Example Sentences
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If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English, "I would not indulge in such quixotism.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this condition not the least of my misery lay in the reflection that I had done no good; that I had suffered for a quixotism, and shown myself stubborn and obstinate to no purpose.
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
Why, because of the discretion, the magnanimity, in fact the utter damn-fool quixotism of my late conduct!
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
I set out the next morning in a humor of suspicious disillusion, all my quixotism turned sour under the dry sun.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
Your marriage," she said, "seemed always to me a piece of quixotism.
From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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