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- noun
Irishism
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Examples
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The sentiment, then, which animated the earlier efforts of the Parliament might be _Iricism_, but did not become patriotism until it had outgrown, and had learned to forswear or to forget, the conditions of its infancy.
Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862
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The fumes of interest had so clouded his rhetoric, that he falls into a downright Iricism.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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There is a great fracas in Ireland in a noble family or two, heightened by a pretty strong circumstance of Iricism.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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_Iricism_ of Nugent, you know; and there is a Count de Nogent. "
Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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-- To make your complaint English, you must say deficient in some thing or other -- 'tis an _Iricism_ to say in general that you are _very deficient. _ "
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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