satirismn.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. I haue nothing to spend on you but passion. A hundred vnfortunate farewels to fantasticall Satirisme.

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. L3^v What lumpes of hard and indigested stuffe, Of bitter Satirism, of Arrogance,..should we fetch vp?

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xxvii. 234 Their tongue-ripe Satyrisme may more easily disturbe the truth of this world, then subuert it.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici Introd. p. xlvii He had a quick Wit, but too much inclin'd to Satyrism.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. 39 Where others have trod before, with various Sarcasms and Satyrisms.

1802 Crit. Rev. 34 493 Our memoirist certainly pushes his satirism too far when he asserts that no good work was produced in Russia during the reign of Catharine II.

1899 Amer. Federationist Mar. 14/2 In brief, the theory of American liberty and personal freedom, which has hitherto been merely a satirism to the American seaman, will be extended to him in fact and in practice.

1950 Scrutiny 17 ii. 145 What strikes one in reading, however, is not so much the variety of these satirisms..but simply their ubiquity.

2012 Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) (Nexis) 27 May 3 Cohen often loses sight of classic political satirism in favour of a smutfest.