Meanings
plural idiasms
- A peculiarity of writing that is specific to an author.
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At present he is but lame — we know who has lamed him — but sooner or later those rivets will be undone; that transfixing bolt will be withdrawn; the idiom, idiotisms and, above all, the idiasms of Shakespeare will be thoroughly understood, and so much that now goes by the board in all modern editions will be restored with intelligent reverence.
1877, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Shakespeare: The Man and the Book
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idiasm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiasm
“idiasm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiasm. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “idiasm,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiasm.
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