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Meaning of "cicisbeism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CICISBEISM

cicisbeism  [ˌtʃiːtʃiːzˈbiːɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CICISBEISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cicisbeism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CICISBEISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cicisbeism

Cicisbeo

In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo, or cavalier servente, was the professed gallant and lover of a married woman, who attended her at public entertainments, to church and other occasions and had privileged access to his mistress. The arrangement is comparable to the Spanish cortejo or estrecho and, to a lesser degree, to the French petit-maître. The exact etymology of the word is unknown; some evidence suggests it originally meant "in a whisper". Other accounts suggest it is an inversion of bel cece, which means "beautiful chick ". According to OED, the first recorded usage of the term in English was found in a letter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dated 1718. The term appears in Italian in Giovanni Maria Muti's "Quaresimale Del Padre Maestro Fra Giovanni Maria Muti De Predicatori" of 1708.

Definition of cicisbeism in the English dictionary

The definition of cicisbeism in the dictionary is the practice of admiring a married woman.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CICISBEISM


absenteeism
ˌæbsənˈtiːɪzəm
allotheism
ˈæləʊˌθiːɪzəm
antitheism
ˌæntɪˈθiːɪzəm
autotheism
ˌɔːtəʊˈθiːɪzəm
caffeism
kæˈfiːɪzəm
cosmotheism
ˌkɒzməʊˈθiːɪzəm
Dadaism
ˈdɑːdɑːɪzəm
deism
ˈdiːɪzəm
egotheism
ˌiːɡəʊˈθiːɪzəm
hylotheism
ˌhaɪləˈθiːɪzəm
mythopoeism
ˌmɪθəʊˈpiːɪzəm
panentheism
ˌpænɛnˈθiːɪzəm
phaeism
ˈfiːɪzəm
presenteeism
ˌprɛzənˈtiːɪzəm
refugeeism
ˌrɛfjuːˈdʒiːɪzəm
Sadduceeism
ˈsædjʊˌsiːɪzəm
Shiism
ˈʃiːɪzəm
sutteeism
sʌˈtiːɪzəm
theism
ˈθiːɪzəm
zootheism
ˈzəʊəˌθiːɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CICISBEISM

cicatrization
cicatrize
cicatrizer
cicelies
cicely
cicero
cicerone
ciceroni
Ciceronian
cichlid
Cichlidae
cichloid
cichoraceous
cicinnus
cicisbei
cicisbeo
ciclaton
ciclosporin
Cicuta
cicutine

WORDS THAT END LIKE CICISBEISM

ableism
ageism
atheism
casteism
dilettanteism
fideism
henotheism
Manichaeism
misoneism
monotheism
obeism
ogreism
pantheism
Parseeism
physitheism
pococuranteism
polytheism
seism
tetratheism
tritheism

Synonyms and antonyms of cicisbeism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cicisbeism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CICISBEISM

Find out the translation of cicisbeism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cicisbeism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cicisbeism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cicisbeism
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cicisbeism
570 millions of speakers

English

cicisbeism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cicisbeism
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

cicisbeism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cicisbeism
278 millions of speakers

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cicisbeism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cicisbeism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sigisbéisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cicisbeism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cicisbeism
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cicisbeism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cicisbeism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cicisbeism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cicisbeism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cicisbeism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिकसबिझम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cicisbeism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cicisbeism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cicisbeism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cicisbeism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cicisbeism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cicisbeism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cicisbeism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cicisbeism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cicisbeism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cicisbeism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CICISBEISM»

The term «cicisbeism» is used very little and occupies the 162.065 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CICISBEISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cicisbeism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cicisbeism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cicisbeism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CICISBEISM»

Discover the use of cicisbeism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cicisbeism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
This would include all those regular sexual relations, which are practised with or without marriage, such as cicisbeism, free love and conjoint marriage (see below ). At the other end of the range are the very restrictive definitions based on ...
Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, 2008
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Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
204 cicisbeism Beijing as plenipotentiary minister (1930–33). Back in Italy, he served as undersecretary for press and propaganda (1934–35) and as minister of the same when that bureau became a ministry (1935). That same year he ...
Roland Sarti, 2009
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Italy: General Views of Its History and Literature in ...
ITALIAN CICISBEISM. 277 or commercial enterprise no longer afforded, must undoubtedly have rendered that anomalous intercourse, in many instances, dangerous and fatal. Still, the veryfrivolousness of that more giddy than guilty age , had ...
Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, 1841
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The Monthly Review
Goldoni, whose fault was rather to have overcharged than to have spared the vices of society, described cicisbeism only as an absurd and troublesome code of etiquette, by no means interfering with the sanctity of private affection. The limits ...
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Italy, Past and Present
Goldoni, whose fault was rather to have overcharged than spared the vices of society, described cicisbeism only as an absurd and troublesome code of etiquette, by no means interfering with the sanctity of private affections. The limits between ...
Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, 1848
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Italy and the Italians
Italy — Family Life — Cicisbeism — Foundling Hospitals — Army — Spirit of modem Catholicism — Classes — Constitutions. Munich, September 40th. The people and the state are composed of families. If these, if the family life, be not healthy, ...
Friedrich von Raumer, 1840
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Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily: With an ...
... Considerable disgrace has been attached to the Italian character in consequence of the fashion of Cicisbeism ; supposed, by modern English writers, to have taken place about the commencement of the seventeenth century: but the fart i», ...
Mariana Starke, 1836
8
Tribal Cultures and Change
Polyandry,. Cicisbeism. and. the. Status. of. Tribal. Women. For the successful functioning of social structure certain norms and values are adopted by all societies. Some of these values become the standard mark of a particular community.
Rann Singh Mann, K. Mann, 1989
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Dodsley's Annual Register
cicisbeism ; I had a mind to know iiow matters really stood; and took the nearest way to information by .asking a mighty beautiful and apparently artless young creature, not noble, how that affair was managed, for there is no harm done / am  ...
Edmund Burke, 1793
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Aspects of Indian Social Anthropology
Rather, the relationship could be of the type of cicisbeism and free sex. Even the Lcpchas of Darjeeling are described to be having cicisbeism rather than polyandry. At the same time, the regions between the Himalayas, including foothills, and ...
Rann Singh Mann, 1996

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CICISBEISM»

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Speak and Spell
... knowledge vs. instinct, cicisbeism vs. tribadism. Twelve finalists (myself among them) have earned the right to bask under the Re-bar's lights ... «TheStranger.com, Jan 07»

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