Meanings
nounfrivolism (countable and uncountable, plural frivolisms)
plural frivolisms
- archaiccountableuncountablefrivolity
I am almost ashamed to mention our enormous excesses—that riot and debauchery, that effeminacy and frivolism[…]
1815, Samuel Clapham, “A Fast Sermon (preached in 1793 by Dr. Scott)”, in Sermons
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