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- noun Alternative form of
Hibernianism .
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Examples
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I wonder if Jordanes could clarify who he was referring to when he alleged any anti-Hibernicism.
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Her last work, the _Book of the Boudoir_, to use an Hibernicism, is not yet published; but from one of its scenes shifted into the _Court Journal_, we pick the following anecdote of John Kemble and her ladyship, (then Miss Owenson), about twenty years since.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 Various
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Excellent, by the way, as this Hibernicism is, it is not so perfect as the following, which it would be difficult for the most accomplished of
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Would a duck swim?" said I, using an expressive Hibernicism.
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The monotype machine is, to use a Hibernicism, two machines, which, though quite separate and unrelated, are yet mutually interdependent and necessary the one to the other.
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Not that they loved society less, but solitude more; especially, to use a Hibernicism, when that solitude was shared.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898
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This seems to involve an exasperating Hibernicism.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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"'T was merely a little Hibernicism, for which I beg your Eminence's indulgence," laughed she.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883
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When it was brought to me, my toast (to use an Hibernicism) proved to be bread-and-butter.
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Of course, the answer, though it sounds like an Hibernicism, is to say that they do have a creed.
Our Unitarian Gospel 1879
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