rare. [f. Gr. ἀνώμαλ-ος (see ANOMAL) + -ISM.] Anomalousness, irregularity, anomaly; an example of irregularity.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 447. The vast multitude of Anomalisms and exceptions in the inflexions of Verbs.
1796. Pegge, Anonym. (1809), 310. This would breed no obscurity by the anomalism, as such modes of spelling would always be perfectly well understood.
1862. Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Hallib. (1864), III. i. 313. She could not understand how so great an anomalism could be.
