Ossianismn.

1820 G. A. Otis tr. D. G. F. de Pradt Europe after Congr. Aix-la-Chapelle vii. 214 In the general tone of diplomatic acts there seems to be a tendency to Mysticism; which in policy produces the same effect as Ossianism, in literature.

1855 J. Hannay Eustace Conyers III. v. 114 Cockneys play at Ossianism in fancy tartans, and strange voices ring in the hills.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 430 It is a comfort for the tourist when he comes upon some one spot where he can see the old Gael walking out of Ossianism into the light of record. Such a spot is Dunstaffnage.

1918 Mod. Lang. Notes 33 358 The author is careful to give the ‘limits’ of Ossianism (coexisting counter-currents and reactions).

1943 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. 542 The Spanish exiled intellectuals, the emigrados, after contact with Ossianism, Sir Walter Scott, Victor Hugo, and Goethe, returned to renovate Spanish letters with native literary forms.

1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 July 752/1 The phenomenon of Ossianism..remained a vital influence in Russian literature for nearly half a century.

1999 New Statesman (Nexis) 18 Oct. Scotland's leap into European consciousness [in the 1770s]..most emblematically signalled by James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry of 1760 and the international wave of Scotland-obsessed Ossianism which followed.