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serventism|sɜːˈvɛntɪz(ə)m|
Also serventeism.
[f. It. servente (in cavaliere servente: see cavalier n. 5) + -ism.]
The system which countenances the devotion of a man to the service of a married woman; cicisbeism.
1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 151 The slavery of serventism. 1839Darley Introd. to Beaum. & Fl. Wks. I. 29 Cicisbeism and serventeism were mentioned with no less complacency than if the dramatists themselves had been Italians. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 277 We may still see serventeism ludicrously caricatured among the middle classes, where a domestic sometimes has to dress for the evening, and attend his mistress as a companion to the theatre or the promenade. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 308/2 The cicisbeism or serventism of Italy and Spain. |