Atticismn.
/ˈatɪsɪz(ə)m/ 1. Siding with, or attachment to, Athens.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > Greece
Atticism1628
philhellenism1830
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War viii. xxxviii Tydeus and his accomplices were put to death for atticism.
1837 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece IV. xxxi. 188 The charge of Atticism.
2. The peculiar style and idiom of the Greek language as used by the Athenians; hence, refined, elegant Greek, and gen. a refined amenity of speech, a well-turned phrase.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fine phrasing > well-turned phrase
lights1550
Atticism1612
aulicism1633
felicity1665
stroke1667
grace stroke1686
curiosa felicitas1752
1612 T. James Treat. Corruption Script. (new ed.) ii. 68 Which yet for the stile and Atticismes comes a great deale short of Baronius commendation.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 14 They made sport, and I laught, they mispronounc't and I mislik't, and to make up the atticisme, they were out, and I hist.
1792 W. Newcome Eng. Biblical Transl. 279 There is an elegant Atticism which occurs [in] Luke xiii. 9.
1813 Examiner 10 May 298/1 Such a man would accuse Thucydides of false grammar on account of his atticisms.
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