Dorismn.
/ˈdɔːrɪz(ə)m/ 1. The Dorian character of language, manners, etc.
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1870 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece (1873) I. ii. i. 219 To counteract the one-sided and inflexible Dorism, and to introduce the beneficent germs of universal Hellenic culture into Sparta.
2. A Doric form of expression; a Doricism.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
provincialism1770
cant1802
Patavinitya1814
countyism1839
regionalism1930
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > word or idiom of
Graecism1570
Hellenism1609
Ionism1676
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
Ionicism1699
Aeolism1712
Greekism1803
Alexandrianism1822
Cilicism1848
1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 189 But let us hear a Second Apology that may be made for the Dorism of Dr Bentley.
1886 H. W. Smyth in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 427 Those Dorisms which appear in the Bœotian dialect.
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