Hardyism

English

Etymology

Hardy +‎ -ism

Noun

Hardyism (countable and uncountable, plural Hardyisms)

  1. An attitude or utterance characteristic of the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
    • 2017, Martin Ray, Thomas Hardy Remembered:
      This would be considered a typical Hardyism, but he was an old man then and his mind was in the past more than in the present, and he had heard that morning of the death of one of his oldest friends.
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