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‖ dilettante
(dɪlɪˈtæntɪ, It. diletˈtante)
Pl. dilettanti |-tiː|, rarely -es.
[It. dilettante ‘a lover of music or painting’, f. dilettare:—L. dēlectāre to delight: see delect, etc. So mod.F. dilettante, 1878 in Dict. Acad.]
1. A lover of the fine arts; originally, one who cultivates them for the love of them rather than professionally, and so = amateur as opposed to professional; but in later use generally applied more or less depreciatively to one who interests himself in an art or science merely as a pastime and without serious aim or study (‘a mere dilettante’).
1733–4[‘The Society of Dilettanti’ was founded]. 1748Chesterfield Lett. ii. xl, You are likely to hear of it as a virtuoso; and if so, I should be glad to profit of it, as an humble dillettante. 1769(title), Ionian Antiquities, By the Society of Dilettanti. 1770Foote Lame Lover i. i, Frederick is a bit of Macaroni and adores the soft Italian termination in a... Yes, a delitanti all over. 1775F. Burney Diary 21 Nov., A female dilettante of great fame and reputation..as a singer. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. ii. 161 Personages whose [musical] talents are celebrated whether they are regarded as professors or Diletanti. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 576 Religious dilettanti, of every sex and age, reinforce the industry of the regular priesthood. 1802Edin. Rev. I. 165 Dilettanti who have pushed themselves into high places in the scientific world. 1826Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life II. vii. 265 It would be difficult to find a dilettante who understood the art of managing it [a parlour organ]. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, Thou hitherto art a Dilettante and sandblind Pedant. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1854) 534/2 The Dilettante sneered at their want of taste. The Maccaroni black⁓balled them as vulgar fellows. 1879Froude Cæsar ii. 17 [The Romans] cared for art as dilettanti; but no schools either of sculpture or painting were formed among themselves. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 271 Rogers was a mere dilettante, who felt no difference between landing where Tell leaped ashore, or standing where ‘St. Preux has stood’.
†b. with of: a lover, one who is fond of. Obs.
1783Hamilton in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 189 Those who are professed dilettanti of miracles.
2. attrib.
a. In apposition, as dilettante musician, etc. = amateur.
1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. (1775) 4 That great Dilettante performer on the harp. 1789F. Burney Lett. 27 Oct., A Dilettante purchaser may yet be found. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xv. iii, You are almost entirely reduced to Dilletanti Musicians. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall iii, Sir Patrick O'Prism, a dilettante painter of high renown. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing v. 252 Suited for the dilettante artist. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 57 The dilettante believer is indeed not a strong spirit, but the weakest.
b. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dilettante (in the shades of meaning the word has passed through).
1753Smollett Ct. Fathom xxxii, He sometimes held forth upon painting, like a member of the Dilettanti club. 1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. (1775) 58 He ordered his servant to bring in his Dilettante ring and wig. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 386 The dilettante spirit which too frequently prevails in Dr. Warton's comments. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. (1891) 198 To us it is no dilettante work, no sleek officiality; it is sheer rough death and earnest. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor II. xiii. 151, I will have a dilletante play, or concert, or some such thing, got up. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 148 A dilettante fastidiousness, an aimless inertia.
Hence dileˈttante v., dileˈttantize v., to play the dilettante (also to dilettante it); dileˈttanting ppl. a.; dileˈttantedom, the world of dilettanti; dileˈttanteship, the condition of a dilettante.
1835James Gipsy v, In the elegant charlatanism of dilettanteship. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 515 To go on dilettanteing it in the grossness of the moral atmosphere of the Continental cities. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 346 Shooting partridges and dilettantizing at legislation. 1887Pall Mall G. 1 Jan. 5/2 The favourite actress of dilettantedom. 1890Spectator 11 Oct. 495 The Shakespeare temptation remains as strong as ever with the dilettanting world. |