Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or principles of cavaliers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice or principles of cavaliers.
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- noun The
practice orprinciples ofcavaliers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
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The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language."
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(though I never heard they exposed him to more peril than that of a broken head, or a night's lodging in the main guard, when wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper storey), had found it a convenient thing to rake up all matter of accusation against the deceased Stephen.
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"in the worst of times" (though I never heard they exposed him to more peril than that of a broken head, or a night's lodging in the main guard, when wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper storey), had found it
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"in the worst of times" (though I never heard they exposed him to more peril than that of a broken head, or a night's lodging in the main guard, when wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper storey), had found it
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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