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verbalism|ˈvɜːbəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. verbal a. + -ism.]
1. A verbal expression; a word or vocable.
1787A. Seward Lett. (1811) I. 372, I always write in too much haste to pause for best-possible verbalisms. 1799Ibid. V. 207 This propensity has probably left several erroneous verbalisms in myself-revised sheets. 1837Whittock Compl. Bk. Trades 390 With those instructions, and other verbalisms, that he acquires daily,..the apprentice may acquire a taste for the art. 1881J. Russell Haigs xi. 308 Its quaint orthography and archaic verbalisms.
b. collect. Words, phrasing.
1800A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 285 It is not amongst our modern songs that the musical composer is to look for his happiest verbalism.
2. Predominance of what is merely verbal over reality or real significance.
1871A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley ii. 28 His abhorrence of scholastic verbalism and empty abstractions. 1879H. N. Hudson Hamlet Pref. p. xv, Our children must be continually drilled in a sort of microscopic verbalism. 1889J. M. Robertson Christ & Krishna xii. 65 The rest is modern Talmudism—the ancient ‘demoniacal possession’ of verbalism over again. |