different between philosophise vs philosophism

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philosophise (third-person singular simple present philosophises, present participle philosophising, simple past and past participle philosophised)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Alternative spelling of philosophize
   • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

     "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having hte fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."

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• philosophies

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Etymology

Compare French philosophisme.

Noun

philosophism (countable and uncountable, plural philosophisms)

1. spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     French Philosophism has arisen; in which little word how much do we include! Here, indeed, lies properly the cardinal symptom of the whole wide-spread malady. Faith is gone out; Scepticism is come in.