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Definition of Quixotisms
1. quixotism [n] - See also: quixotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quixotisms
Literary usage of Quixotisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1896)
"... with the humours and quixotisms, the wit and the whim, the unreality, the
fantastic extravagance, which veiled its inner nobleness. ..."
2. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1908)
"... 1572. the humours and quixotisms, the wit and the whim, the unreality, the
fantastic extravagance, which veiled its inner nobleness. ..."
3. History of the English People by John Richard Green (1903)
"... with the humours and quixotisms, the wit and the whim, the unreality, the
fantastic extravagance, which veiled its inner nobleness. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... open-hearted Irish nature—a sensibility so keen as to lead him even to quixotisms
and oddities of kindness—give such a warm background to his philosophy ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... open-hearted Irish nature—a sensibility so keen as to lead him even to quixotisms
and oddities of kindness—give such a warm background to his philosophy ..."
6. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"Hitherto the revolutions have been mere Don quixotisms, the republics nothing
but forms of the old regime, which must be destroyed from its foundations if ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869)
"even to quixotisms and oddities of kindness—give such a warm background to his
philosophy as no other great thinker within our recollection can equal. ..."
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