literarismn.
/ˈlɪt(ə)rərɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈlɪdəˌrɪzəm/ 1. Engagement in literary pursuits; literariness; (esp.) advocacy of or belief in the importance of literature and literary studies (cf. scientism n. 2).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality > literarism
literaryism1879
literosity1887
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1893 Jrnl. Brit. Dental Assoc. 15 Aug. 529 The readers of journals, if really faithful to their self-imposed task, are equally subject to the incessant and punctually recurring act of literarism.
1963 A. Huxley Lit. & Sci. i. 5 Snow or Leavis? The bland scientism of The Two Cultures or..the one-track, moralistic literarism of the Richmond Lecture?
1970 F. R. Leavis in Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 441/4 ‘Literarism’ versus ‘Scientism’.
1998 Textual Practice 12 418 The older ‘casebooks’ which it may be assumed are avatars of an unashamed old literarism.
2. A self-consciously literary word or form; = literaryism n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality > literarism > instance of
literaryism1879
literarism1942
1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 173/1 Literarisms are either the journalese of the literary (these literarisms might also be stigmatized as high-brow) or such unusual words as are used only by the literary or learned.
1973 D. Vessey Statius & Thebaid i. 49 The mannered style has left no room for immediacy: even personal bereavement has to be encased in literarisms which have largely lost their vitality.
1996 D. Hofstadter Love Affair as Work of Art ii. iv. 219 Mercifully, too, Adolphe..was free of the literarisms that had so marred Chateaubriand's style.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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