lyrism

English

Etymology

From lyre +‎ -ism.

Noun

lyrism (countable and uncountable, plural lyrisms)

1. (archaic) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Part 8, Chapter 82:

     But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;

References

• “lyrism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.