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Noun

Elizabethanism ‎(plural Elizabethanisms)

1. A word, usage, or linguistic feature particular to the literature of England in the Elizabethan period.
   • 1898, Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose, Preface.

     For the charm of the Elizabethans does not lie in their Elizabethanisms; these are but as the mosses and lichens which Time will grow upon our Victorian literature as surely as he has grown them upon the Elizabethan—upon such of it, at least, as has not been jerry-built.

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