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Meaning of Elizabethanism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A word, usage, or linguistic feature particular to the literature of England in the Elizabethan period.

Equivalents

Polski elżbietanizm

Examples

“For the charm of the Elizabethans does not lie in their Elizabethanisms; these are but as the mosses and lichens which Time will grow upon our Victorian literature as surely as he has grown them upon the Elizabethan—upon such of it, at least, as has not been jerry-built.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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