accismusn.

Brit.

/əkˈsɪzməs/, U.S.

/əkˈsɪzməs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin accismus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin accismus (1528 in Erasmus) < Hellenistic Greek ἀκκισμός coyness, affectation < ancient Greek ἀκκίζεσθαι to affect indifference, to affect ignorance, dissemble, to affect to be shocked, to be coy ( < Hellenistic Greek ἀκκώ bogey, that nurses frighten children with ( < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin Acca , name of the shepherd's wife who brought up Romulus and Remus) + -ίζεσθαι -ize suffix) + -μός, suffix forming nouns.

Rhetoric. Now rare.

The pretended refusal of something one keenly desires. Also: an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1565 S. Cooper Dict. Historicum at Acco, in Thesaurus This woman also woulde refuse earnestly that she moste desyred. Wherfore suche feigned refusall, is called Accismus.

1650 R. Heath Epigrams i. 24 in Clarastella Foolish Accismus hath a qualitie To deny offer'd things in modestie: By chance one offer'd him an injurie, He took it: Bless me! what a fool was he?

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Cromwell's refusal of the crown..may be brought as an instance of an Accismus.

1848 A. H. tr. J. P. F. Richter Levana iv. iv. 236 A woman requires no figure of eloquence—herself excepted—so often as that of accismus.

1888 Nation 8 Mar. 188/3 Let us thank the Greeks for teaching us accismus.

1972 J. P. McCulloch in Poems of Sextus Propertius 3 When he declares he will have no more to do with bawds, it is merely accismus, a convention of the times.

2000 CMJ New Music Monthly June 100/1 A guide to rhetoric's forms and terms, designed for experts as well as people who don't know their accismus from their exergasia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accismus
释义	accismusn. Brit. /əkˈsɪzməs/, U.S. /əkˈsɪzməs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin accismus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin accismus (1528 in Erasmus) < Hellenistic Greek ἀκκισμός coyness, affectation < ancient Greek ἀκκίζεσθαι to affect indifference, to affect ignorance, dissemble, to affect to be shocked, to be coy ( < Hellenistic Greek ἀκκώ bogey, that nurses frighten children with ( < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin Acca , name of the shepherd's wife who brought up Romulus and Remus) + -ίζεσθαι -ize suffix) + -μός, suffix forming nouns. Rhetoric. Now rare. The pretended refusal of something one keenly desires. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ 1565 S. Cooper Dict. Historicum at Acco, in Thesaurus This woman also woulde refuse earnestly that she moste desyred. Wherfore suche feigned refusall, is called Accismus. 1650 R. Heath Epigrams i. 24 in Clarastella Foolish Accismus hath a qualitie To deny offer'd things in modestie: By chance one offer'd him an injurie, He took it: Bless me! what a fool was he? 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Cromwell's refusal of the crown..may be brought as an instance of an Accismus. 1848 A. H. tr. J. P. F. Richter Levana iv. iv. 236 A woman requires no figure of eloquence—herself excepted—so often as that of accismus. 1888 Nation 8 Mar. 188/3 Let us thank the Greeks for teaching us accismus. 1972 J. P. McCulloch in Poems of Sextus Propertius 3 When he declares he will have no more to do with bawds, it is merely accismus, a convention of the times. 2000 CMJ New Music Monthly June 100/1 A guide to rhetoric's forms and terms, designed for experts as well as people who don't know their accismus from their exergasia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565
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