quizzism en · NOUN
Etymology
From quiz + -ism.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) The act or habit of quizzing.
What quizzism could he have been afraid of, adopting the language of the hero victors? Lord Burleigh had not this fear when he made his reply to Walsingham.
1838, Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, The life of William Wilberforce: Volume 3, page 241:Look intelligent, penetrating, and vivacious, with a shade of quizzism, and, at times, of severity.
1865, Mariano Aguirre de Venero, New system of physiognomony, ^([sic]):