1697, J. O. (Minister of the Gospel.), Tutamen Evangelicum. Or, a defence of Scripture Ordination, against the exceptions of T. G. in a book intituled Tentamen Novum proving that ordination by presbyters is valid. ... By ... the author of the Plea for Scripture-Ordination [J. O., i.e. James Owen].[1], page 174:
This Argument he thinks better than any J. O. has produced to the contrary, unless he flatters himself by an unusual Charientism.
2020 March 9, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work[2], BRILL, →ISBN, page 3:
This work is shot through with a 'Madonna-whore' complex where women are both venerated and scorned, often in the course of the same elegy, working like a rhetorical device such as charientism
2016 October 14, Anthony W. Johnson, Roger D. Sell, Helen Wilcox, Community-Making in Early Stuart Theatres: Stage and audience[3], Routledge, →ISBN:
All this is expressed in humorous circumlocution, as a witty demonstration of the rhetorical figure charientism (an insult mediated by a joke).
2019 December 3, Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May: The Lonely Hour: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery[4], Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 173:
Bryant, ever the master of charientism, cheerfully waved the thought away.