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
If that girl had designed to cast a spell upon him, she could have chosen no more potent elixir than this sublimated essence of quixotism.
From Command by McFee, William
The materialism of this age must pass away, as has passed the quixotism of the crusades.
From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William
He was capable of quixotism of the most whimsical sort.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
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 Hastings, Wells
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