lyrism
English
Etymology
lyre + -ism
Noun
lyrism (countable and uncountable, plural lyrisms)
- The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch Part 8, Chapter 82
- But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch Part 8, Chapter 82
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lyrism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)