scholarism en · NOUN
Etymology
From scholar + -ism.
Meanings
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(obsolete, rare, uncountable) Scholarship.
The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd, That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes In heavenly matters of theology
1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus:I have (like blind Bayard) plodded forward, and set forth many Pamphlets full of much Love, and little Scholarism.
1590, Robert Greene, Greene's Mourning Garment (quoted in Excerpta Tudoriana: or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature (1813) by Samuel Egerton Brydges, p. 128 (Google preview))