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- noun Alternative form of
polyglotism
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polyglot + -ism
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Examples
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This postwar polyglottism was just a faint foreshadowing, I think, of the pidgins and creoles (the very words sound like species of bird) to come in the wake of globalism.
Nowhere’s Vernacular : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Chris Tessone at Protestant Polyglot now with added polyglottism! has posted an entry giving the Coptic resources he's found on the web in the course of preparing for graduate work.
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The French have viewed this creeping polyglottism with a touch of disdain and, in 1977, introduced legislation outlawing all foreign words in advertisements.
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