Elizabethanismn.
/ɪlɪzəˈbiːθənɪz(ə)m/ A manner or style, or a (literary, etc.) work, or a particular feature of these, characteristic or imitative of the style, language, etc., of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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1895 S. Butler in H. F. Jones Mem. (1919) II. xxxiii. 207 He who would write a translation like those of the Elizabethans must above all things avoid Elizabethanisms.
1897 Daily News 10 May 9/1 Complaint is heard of his ‘affected Elizabethanisms’.
1909 G. K. Chesterton in D. Figgis Vis. Life p. vii The latest Elizabethanism has differed not only from the actual Elizabethan work, but from other revivals of it.
1938 Times 16 Feb. 10/3 The small string orchestra..provided a pleasant Elizabethanism in a consort of recorders.
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