fairyism

[ fair-ee-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. fairylike quality.
2. belief in fairies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fairyism¹

First recorded in 1705–15; fairy + -ism

Example Sentences

Never talk to me with mockery of fairyism, witchcraft, and sylphs; the real influence of lovely youth, is a thousand times more wonderful, more potent, and more incredible!

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Has all the enchantment of the moonlight-land of chivalry and fairyism in “The Floure and the Leafe” vanished?

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This life-devourer, who comes veiled in a mist from the marshes, may be some mythic being; but though monstrous, it does little more than play the part of the Polyphemus of antiquity and the Ogre of modern fairyism.

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She kept one cow, but sold more butter, it was said, than any farmer in the parish, and it was generally suspected that she acquired it by devilish agency, as she never made a secret of being intimately acquainted with sorcery and fairyism.

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If any body wants to see the results of Ella's first attempts at good fairyism, they can call at the doors of two or three old buildings on Christmas morning, and they shall hear all about it.

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