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Definition of Quixotism

Quixotism
Quixotism Quix"ot*ism, n. That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.

Meaning of Quixotism from wikipedia

- word quixotism is mentioned, for the first time, in Pulpit Popery, True Popery (1688): ...all the Heroical Fictions of Ecclesiastical Quixotism... Spanish...
- Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since /ˈweɪvərli/ is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish...
- circuses Daydream Deindividuation Sehnsucht Primitivism Peter Pan syndrome Quixotism Self-deception Utopianism Wanderlust Escapist fiction Workman, Leslie...
- up quixotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quixotic may refer to: Quixotism, deriving from the novel Don Quixote Quixotic (album), an album by Martina...
- the face of the modern world as anachronistic, giving rise to the term Quixotism. Conversely, elements of Romanticism sought to revive such "medieval"...
- state of defence, and it is needless to say that no one ****erts such a quixotism to be obligatory." Declarations of war, while uncommon in the traditional...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...
- Female Quixotism (1801) as the most po****r novel written in America prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Female Quixotism went through...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...