A misspelling or non-standard variant of criticism; sometimes appears in historical or dialectal texts.
This appears to be a variant or misspelling of criticism rather than an established word. It may represent historical spelling variation before standardization.
Before dictionaries standardized spelling, people wrote 'criticsm,' 'criticisme,' and 'criticism' almost interchangeably—this word is a fossil from the spelling chaos of the 17th-19th centuries.
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