Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Affectation or pretension of scholarship.
Etymologies
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scholar + -ism
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Examples
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Farther on he laughs at the 'prophetical spirits' of those 'who set the end of scholarism in an _English blank-verse_.'
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