Definition of Echoism

1. the formation of words in imitation of sounds [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Echoism

echograms
echograph
echographer
echographia
echographic
echography
echoic
echoic memory
echoing
echoing(a)
echoingly
echoise
echoised
echoises
echoising
echoism (current term)
echoisms
echoist
echoists
echoize
echoized
echoizes
echoizing
echokinesis
echolalia
echolalias
echolalic
echoless
echolike
echolocate

Literary usage of Echoism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1822)
"X. echoism; a Poem. 8vo. pp. 257. Sherwood and Co. 1821. have here a re-print, with additions, of a poetical satire which was published some years since ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1822)
"echoism has perpetuated the prejudice, that pedigrees are claims to honour, which ought to be modestly declined, not necessary adjuncts, as they really are, ..."

3. Making Advertisements and Making Them Pay by Roy Sarles Durstine (1920)
"He employed what the old highbrows used to call onomatopoeia and what the newer philologists call echoism — " the formation of words by imitation of natural ..."

4. Bibliotheca Somersetensis: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Single Sheets by Emanuel Green (1902)
"echoism. A poem. (Anonymous.) 8vo., 1821. With appendix. New edition. 8vo., 1823. Memoirs of a manager : or, life's stage, with new scenery, ..."

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