concettistn.
/kənˈtʃɛtɪst/, U.S. /kənˈtʃɛdəst/ Literary Criticism.
A writer who makes use of conceits or concetti (concetto n.); a practitioner of concettism.
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concettist1832
1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 527/1 Spain had.., as Italy at an earlier period, her Marinists, or concettists.
1898 Literature 26 Mar. 341/1 Their effect is lurid and hideous, whereas the Elizabethan concettists at least aimed at the beautiful.
1919 P. H. Osmond Mystical Poets Eng. Church v. 126 Beaumont, whom he [sc. Crashaw] had guided into the paths of mystical theology and had taught the trick of the concettists.
1940 Horizon 11 Nov. 267 Petrarchan concettists (including Marlowe).
2009 tr. I. van Elferen Mystical Love in German Baroque i. 5 Concettists such as Costanzo, Tansillo, and Rota combined the erotic mannerism of the first petrarchists with Bembo's poetics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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