scholarismn.
/ˈskɒlərɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈskɑləˌrɪz(ə)m/ Now rare.
Academic knowledge or learning, esp. following traditional doctrines and methods of study; scholarship. Sometimes depreciative, implying pedantry and abstractionism.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun]
scholarism1588
pedantism1592
pedantry1612
scholasticism1797
bluestockingism1812
donnishness1835
donnism1859
pragmaticism1865
usherism1869
pragmatism1895
mandarinism1976
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > intellectual command, mastery > [noun] > learning of the schools
school learningc1443
scholarism1588
1588 R. Greene Perimedes To Rdr. sig. A3v If there be anye in England that set the end of scollarisme in an English blanck verse.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A2 So soone hee profites in Diuinitie, The fruitfull plot of Scholerisme grac't, That shortly he was grac't with Doctors name.
1611 G. H. tr. Anti-Coton 64 [He] hath a purpose to erect a new Colledge in the Vniuersitie, where he will raise the study of good letters, which are falne, sith these men have soyled them, by reducing them vnto a miserable kinde of Schollerisme.
1878 J. Doran Mem. Great Towns 225 There was an impression that this new-fangled scholarism was a very sad matter indeed.
1910 Mod. Lang. Rev. 5 357 Those who best know the plagiaristic and allusive nature of Elizabethan scholarism will least expect to find the list of borrowings complete.
1968 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 46 136/1 It is secure from discovery in any study that is merely obeisance to the household gods of scholarism.
2009 16th Cent. Jrnl. 40 872 Milton's defense of the regicide proves his audacity and scholarism to an international audience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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