cavalierism

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noun

The practice or principles of cavaliers; cavalier behaviour

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Meanings

nouncavalierism (countable and uncountable, plural cavalierisms)

plural cavalierisms

  1. countableuncountableThe practice or principles of cavaliers; cavalier behaviour

    wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper story

    1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

Origin

From cavalier + -ism.

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APA

cavalierism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cavalierism

MLA

“cavalierism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cavalierism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cavalierism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cavalierism.

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