shakespeareanism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I thee tell, Woman: our Son is become lost to Shakespeareanism and Latin, all but unwilling to be a Typesetter as his Father."
- "It is said that the English language has over 1,700 Shakespereanisms."
- "A small number of persons has ever perused Shakespeareanism in its entirety."
- "Dr. Hallsworth is a scholar of literature, with an expertise on the Shakespeareanism."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Shakespearean Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Shakespeareanism From Shakespearean + -ism.