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?
| 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
- zoisite, n.1805–
- zoism, n.1900–
- zoist, n.1843–
- zoistic, adj.1849–
- zoite, n.1963–
- -zoite, comb. form
- zol, n.1946–
- Zolaesque, adj.1886–
- Zolaism, n.1882–
- Zolaist, n.1886–
- Zolaistic, adj.1886–
- Zolaize, v.1886–
- Zollinger–Ellison syndrome, n.1956–
- Zöllner, n.1890–
- zollverein, n.1843–
- zolotnik, n.1783–
- zombie, n.1788–
- zombie apocalypse, n.1982–
- zombied, adj.1972–
- zombie-esque, adj.1946–
- zombie-like, adj. & adv.1932–
Meaning & use
- 1886–See Zolaism n.Stressed as Zolaˈistic.
- 1886
The French critics either of the Hugoistic or the Zolaistic persuasion.
Athenæum 30 January 161/3
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 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 |