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quixotism
quixotism (ˈkwɪksətɪz(ə)m) [f. as quixotic a. + -ism.] Quixotic principles, character, or practice; an instance of this, a quixotic action or idea.1688 Pulpit Popery, True Popery 36 All the Heroical Fictions of Ecclesiastical Quixotism. 1723 Briton No. 20 (1724) 86 His Publick Spirit would appear me...
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Quixotism
Quixotism is usually related to "over-idealism", meaning an idealism that doesn't take consequence or absurdity into account. Origin
Quixotism as a term or a quality appeared after the publication of Don Quixote in 1605.
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quixotry
quixotry (ˈkwɪksətrɪ) Also 8 -ery. [f. as prec. + -ry.] = quixotism.[1718 Motteux Quix. (1733) III. 45 Many..cry out Give us more Quixotery.] 1814 Scott Drama (1874) 217 An adventurous spirit of profligate Quixotry. 1873 H. Rogers Orig. Bible (1874) 411 We may wait for such an objector before indulg...
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Escapism
See also
Bread and circuses
Daydream
Sehnsucht
Primitivism
Peter Pan syndrome
Quixotism
Utopianism
Wanderlust
Escapist fiction
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quixotic
quixotic, a. (n.) (kwɪkˈsɒtɪk) [f. Quixote n.] 1. Of persons: Resembling Don Quixote; hence, striving with lofty enthusiasm for visionary ideals.1815 J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 157, I considered Miranda as a vagrant, a vagabond, a Quixotic adventurer. 1857 Hughes Tom Brown i. i, This family training..m...
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Milan Ohnisko
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Ohnisko's poetry is a mixture of naivist technique which uses word play with highly rational punchlines, and neo-decadent sense of tragedy and quixotism
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renegado
renegado, n. (and a.) (rɛnɪˈgeɪdəʊ) Also 6 renigado, 7 rennegado, renegador. [a. Sp. renegado, ad. med.L. renegatus: see renegate.] 1. = renegade 1.1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 186 He was a Renegado, which is one that first was a Christian, and afterwards becommeth a Turke. 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 238 ...
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Tabitha Gilman Tenney
The Parodic Mode and the Patriarchal Imperative: Reading the Female Reader(s) in Tabitha Tenney's "Female Quixotism". The Body Politic in Tabitha Tenney's "Female Quixotism".
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Vestiarium Scoticum
Sir Thomas then goes on to discuss the brothers' character, credibility, and society's opinion of them, admitting that the "Quixotism of the two brothers
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jus'
▪ I. jus, n. Cookery. Brit. /ʒuː(s)/, /dʒuːs/, U.S. /ʒu(s)/ [‹ French jus (see juice n.). Compare au jus adj. and adv. and n.] A thin gravy consisting of or made with the pan juices of roast meat. In extended use: any juice or light sauce, esp. one served with a savoury dish. Usu. without article.18...
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John Dabney
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Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism, or History of Dorcasina Sheldon
Maria Tharmott's Sans Souci Park
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tink
▪ I. tink, int. and n.1 (tɪŋk) [Echoic.] A representation of the abrupt sound made by striking resonant metal with something hard and light: cf. chink, clink; often reduplicated in imitation of the repetition of such a sound, also with such variations as tink-tank, tink-a-tink, etc. Hence as n. a si...
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Oren Ambarchi
) なぞらない (Nazoranai) with Keiji Haino and Stephen O'Malley (Editions Mego)
(2013) Cat's Squirrel with Merzbow (Black Truffle / Hospital Hill)
(2014) Quixotism
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Don
Don, n.1 (dɒn) Also 6 Doen, Done. In senses 3, 4 with small initial. [a. Sp. don:—L. domin-um master, lord.] 1. A Spanish title, prefixed to a man's Christian name. Formerly confined to men of high rank, but now applied in courtesy to all of the better classes.1523 Wolsey in St. Papers VI. 119 The A...
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Declaration of war
formality unless the enemy must be given time and opportunity to put himself in a state of defence, and it is needless to say that no one asserts such a quixotism
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