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
What he had been listening to had been the quixotism of a tender heart, ignorant of life and affairs, and all the wider possibilities open to man's will.
From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
To have renounced that was an heroic deed which bordered on quixotism.
From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip
On this occasion the behaviour of Santa Cruz was generous almost to quixotism.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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