ETYMOLOGY
from Euclionem, the name of a miser, the chief character in Plautus’ Aulularia + -ism
EXAMPLE
“…Yea in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was, wealthy saide I, nay I’le befworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me, those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs, were strooke with such stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and sundgery, that hee was not yet cold in his graue but they challenged him to be borne amongst them, and they and sixe citties more, entred a sharpe warre aboute it, euery one of them laying claime to him as their owne, and to this effect hath Bucchanan an Epigram….”
From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
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