Zolaistic, adj.

zolaistic
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First published 1921; not fully revised

# Zolaisticadjective

## Factsheet

### Where does the adjective Zolaistic come from?

Earliest known use

1880s

The earliest known use of the adjective Zolaistic is in the 1880s.

OED's only evidence for Zolaistic is from 1886, in the Athenaeum.

### How common is the adjective Zolaistic?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1880 | 0.0022
1890 | 0.0022
1900 | 0.0024
1910 | 0.0021
1920 | 0.0023
1930 | 0.0018
1940 | 0.0015
1950 | 0.0013
1960 | 0.0009
1970 | 0.0005
1980 | 0.0004
1990 | 0.0003
2000 | 0.0002
2010 | 0.0001

### Nearby entries

1. zoisite, n. 1805–
2. zoism, n. 1900–
3. zoist, n. 1843–
4. zoistic, adj. 1849–
5. zoite, n. 1963–
6. -zoite, comb. form
7. zol, n. 1946–
8. Zolaesque, adj. 1886–
9. Zolaism, n. 1882–
10. Zolaist, n. 1886–
11. Zolaistic, adj.1886–
12. Zolaize, v. 1886–
13. Zollinger–Ellison syndrome, n. 1956–
14. Zöllner, n. 1890–
15. zollverein, n. 1843–
16. zolotnik, n. 1783–
17. zombie, n. 1788–
18. zombie apocalypse, n. 1982–
19. zombied, adj. 1972–
20. zombie-esque, adj. 1946–
21. zombie-like, adj. & adv. 1932–

## Meaning & use

1. 1886–
   See Zolaism n.
   Stressed as Zolaˈistic.
   1. 1886

      > The French critics either of the Hugoistic or the Zolaistic persuasion.

      Athenæum 30 January 161/3
   literature
   1. Zolaistic 1886–
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## Frequency

Zolaistic typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

Zolaistic is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of Zolaistic, adj., 1880–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
--- | ---
1880 | 0.0022
1890 | 0.0022
1900 | 0.0024
1910 | 0.0021
1920 | 0.0023
1930 | 0.0018
1940 | 0.0015
1950 | 0.0013
1960 | 0.0009
1970 | 0.0005
1980 | 0.0004
1990 | 0.0003
2000 | 0.0002
2010 | 0.0001

Originally published as part of the entry for Zolaism, n.

Zolaism, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.