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‖ modernismus|ˌmɒdəˈnɪzməs| [G.] = modernism 4.
1934R. Blomfield Modernismus p. v, Since the war, Modernism, or ‘Modernismus’, as it should be called on the German precedent, has invaded this country like an epidemic. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 248 Listening to his [sc. Hindemith's] firmly wrought works we seem to see ourselves in a block of hygienic and efficient workman's flats built in the best modernismus manner. 1948Wyndham Lewis Let. 18 Oct. (1963) 464 ‘The Waste Land’, which bit of modernismus appeared a few years before. 1958Listener 17 July 102/1 A city that was to be the last word in modernismus, a technician's ‘New Jerusalem’. 1970Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 9 Oct. 65/2 A bale of soft material, patterned in that modernismus which was so big in the Thirties, and now survives mainly in British Rail. |