Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spenserism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spenserism
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.

Example Sentences

"The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]"

Etymology

From Spenser + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Spenser

Inflected Forms

Spenserisms (plural)

Questions

What does spenserism mean?: A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
Where does spenserism come from?: From Spenser + -ism.

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