nonce-wd. [f. L. lingua tongue + -ISM.] Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages.

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1819.  Moore, Mem., 4 March (1853), II. 274. The faults of Mr. Fox’s writing may perhaps be traced to his linguism, and some of the purest writers of English have been those that knew but little of other languages.

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