inkhornism

English

Etymology

inkhorn +‎ -ism

Noun

inkhornism (countable and uncountable, plural inkhornisms)

  1. Pedantry.
    • 1553, Thomas Wilson, Art of Rhetorique
      Among all other lessons this should first be learned, that wee never affect any straunge ynkehorne termes, but to speake as is commonly received
  2. (countable) An inkhorn term.
    • 1996, Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
      the virus of unrestrained inkhornism

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 inkhornism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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