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classicality|klæsɪˈkælɪtɪ| [f. as prec. + -ity.] 1. Classical quality or character (of literary or artistic style, of education, taste, etc.).
1819Monthly Rev. LXXXIX. 366 An affectation of classicality. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §37 The vile classicality of Canova and the modern Italians. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. x. (1860) 165 Campbell, as an author, was all for refinement and classicality. 2. Classical scholarship.
1827For. Q. Rev. No. 1 (L.), To make a display of this scrap of classicality which he had just acquired. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 54 The land..of mountains and mathematics—of clouds and classicality. 3. An instance or piece of classical learning, art, etc.
1844R. Ward Chatsworth I. 28 No vulgar classicalities shock the scholar's eye. 1856Sat. Rev. II. 735/2 Horatian quotations and the like small classicalities. |