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What does quixotism mean?

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Noun
  1. That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
  2. Quixotry.
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But there was no piece of quixotism they did not think Michael capable of.
My good fellow, leave your quixotism behind you with your poverty.
Over the years, belief in the brontosaurus became a badge of melancholy quixotism.
He obeyed and expounded Sypher's quixotism in his roundabout fashion.
In the course of the story's seven pages, Sammy reveals a quixotism destined either to go unremarked or to be misunderstood.
For in that character there has dawned a sort of quixotism which never used to be there.

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