[f. as prec. + -ISM.] The system, doctrine or principles of bards.
1716. M. Davies, Ath. Brit., II. 191. Welsh poetick Bardism is best cultivated in the Ionicks of Merionethshire.
1863. Reader, No. 30. 75. That native Bardism which had been part and parcel of the aboriginal Druidism.
