bovarismn.

1902 J. de Gaultier (title) Le Bovarysme.]

1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 273 By a process of what Jules de Gaultier has called ‘Bovarysm’..we impose upon ourselves a more or less fictitious personality.

1934 T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Ess. iii. 40 I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 30 The French philosopher, Jules de Gaultier, has said that one of the essential faculties of the human being is ‘the power granted to man to conceive himself as other than he is’. He calls this power ‘bovarism’ after the heroine of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

1952 H. Levin in Ess. in Crit. II. 16 An all-pervasive state of mind: Bovarism.

1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 273 The bovaric personage..is firmly established.

1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 32 Realizing, if only in words, his bovaristic dreams.

1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 273 Our earnest efforts to bovaryze ourselves into imaginary unity.

1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 31 People have bovarized themselves into the likeness of every kind of real or imaginary being.

1952 H. Levin in Ess. in Crit. II. 3 If to Bovarize is simply to daydream.