cavalierism

noun

cavalierism

noun

Etymology From cavalier + -ism.

1

The practice or principles of cavaliers; cavalier behaviour

  • wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper story1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

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