English Explanatory Dictionary

Aeolism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.
  2. A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.
noun
  1. A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
  2. A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments.
  3. A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Aeolism.

Word forms

Aeolism Aeolisms

Etymology

From Aeolic + -ism.

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