scholarism

scholarism

English

Etymology

scholar +‎ -ism

Noun

scholarism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Scholarship.[1]
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene's Mourning Garment (quoted in Excerpta Tudoriana: or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature (1813) by Samuel Egerton Brydges, p. 128 (Google preview)):

     I have (like blind Bayard) plodded forward, and set forth many Pamphlets full of much Love, and little Scholarism.

   • 1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus:

     The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd,

     That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name,

     Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes

     In heavenly matters of theology

References

1. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.