blockheadism

English edit

Etymology edit

blockhead +‎ -ism

Noun edit

blockheadism (countable and uncountable, plural blockheadisms)

The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
  Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert[.]

Translations edit

stupidity

Polish: bałwaństwo n

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blockheadism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)