[f. SPASMOD-IC a. + -ISM.] Spasmodic feeling or emotion.

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1878.  T. Sinclair, Mount, 242. Spasmodism is a true stage in the growth of a first spirit.

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1883.  Mem. Vol. Rev. A. Maclean, 331. A curious mixture of mediæval rigidity and modern spasmodism.

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