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Quixotic
Quixotic Quix*ot"ic, a. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. ``Feats of quixotic gallantry.' --Prescott.
Quixotically
Quixotically Quix*ot"ic*al*ly, adv. In a quixotic way.
Quixotism
Quixotism Quix"ot*ism, n. That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
Quixotry
Quixotry Quix"ot*ry, n. Quixotism; visionary schemes.

Meaning of Quixot from wikipedia

- Quixotism (/kwɪkˈsɒtɪzəm/ or /kiːˈhoʊtɪzəm/; adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...
- turning away from it, considering it as anachronistic and tinged with quixotism. In ****an, it emerged in the 1920s as the Mingei movement. It stood for...
- Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since /ˈweɪvərli/ is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish...
- the face of the modern world as anachronistic, giving rise to the term Quixotism. Conversely, elements of Romanticism sought to revive such "medieval"...
- published Modern Chivalry in 1792–1815; Tabitha Gilman Tenney wrote Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventure of Dorcasina...
- 50 (4): 474. doi:10.1353/sdn.2018.0038. Wyett, Jodi L. (2015). "Female Quixotism Refashioned: Northanger Abbey, the Engaged Reader, and the Woman Writer"...
- Hugh Peters depicted in a 1660 broadside, "Don Pedro de Quixot, or in English the Right Reverend Hugh Peters"...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...
- de Avellaneda Amadís de Gaula List of works influenced by Don Quixote Quixotism The History of Cardenio "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)...