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- adjective Opposing or rejecting what is
classical .
Etymologies
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anti- + classical
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Examples
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Worringer, speaking as an art historian, champions the nonnaturalistic and anticlassical phases in the history of the plastic arts.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ULRICH WEISSTEIN 1968
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The word “ro mantic,” though lately come into vogue, patently did not function as a rallying cry since it signified too many different things (e.g., “anticlassical” to Friedrich
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FRANKLIN L. BAUMER 1968
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