Czechism
nounEtymology From Czech + -ism.
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Rhetoric A word or idiom of the Czech language (that has been borrowed by another language).
- Examples include East Slavicisms in Polish Yiddish (and vice versa) and Czechisms in Polish and Eastern Yiddish dialects.1987, Paul Wexler, Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics, page 168:
2
Historical, Usually Czech nationalism.
- They regarded Thun as the representative of "Czechism" who had placed all his cards on the convocation of a national parliament.1980, Josef V. Polišenský, Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848:
- There is unanimous feeling throughout Germany, that this Czechism ought to be put down, but it would be manifestly unjust, and consequently unwise, besides being a task beyond the power of Germany, under existing circumstances.1848, “On the Affairs of Europe”, in Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 355: