[f. FAMILIAR a. + -ISM.] A mode of expression usual only in familiar language; a colloquialism.
1765. Patriotism, a Mock-heroic (ed. 2), Index, Familiarisms and vulgarisms.
1787. W. Marshall, Norfolk, II. To Rdr., 9. I thought it prudent to do away some of the familiarisms of the original minutes.
1803. W. Taylor, in The Monthly Mag., XIV. 1 Dec., 506. Would-be. This familiarism deserved record, as it is one of the few written instances of an analogy common to the Gothic languages—the use of long phrases in an adjectival capacity.
