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classicism|ˈklæsɪsɪz(ə)m| [f. classic + -ism. Cf. F. classicisme.] 1. The principles of classic literature or art; adherence to, or adoption of, classical style.
1830Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 60 In the composition of Cinq Mars, there is none of the exaggeration or pedantrie of romanticism or of classicism. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) II. iii. v. i. 286 Catholicism, Classicism, Sentimentalism, Cannibalism: all isms that make up Man in France, are rushing and roaring in that gulf. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc., Armand Carrel (1859) I. 233 This insurrection against the old traditions of classicism was called romanticism. 1871Athenæum 15 July 87 A middle course between the conventionalism of the Italo-Byzantine and the naturalism or classicism of the rising schools. 2. A classical (i.e. Latin or Greek) idiom or form.
1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tong. §591 This has been felt to be a Frenchism or a classicism. 1881Saintsbury Dryden vi. 123 To avoid slipping into clumsy classicisms. 3. Classical scholarship.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 188 So far as all the classicism then attainable was concerned, Shakespeare got it as cheap as Goethe did. |