quizzism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]quizzism (uncountable)
- (archaic) The act or habit of quizzing.
- 1838, Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, The life of William Wilberforce: Volume 3, page 241:
- What quizzism could he have been afraid of, adopting the language of the hero victors? Lord Burleigh had not this fear when he made his reply to Walsingham.
- 1865, Mariano Aguirre de Venero, New system of physiognomony, [sic]:
- Look intelligent, penetrating, and vivacious, with a shade of quizzism, and, at times, of severity.