[f. CRANK sb.2 5 + -ISM.] = CRANKERY.
1881. Brooklyn Daily Times, 7 July, 2/3. The Herald, is getting up a plea of emotional insanity, or ‘crankism,’ to justify the virulent abuse it poured upon the head of President Garfield.
1890. Troy Daily Times, 15 Nov., 2/3. The epidemic of crankism which has prevailed.
