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- noun Plural form of
Grecism .
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Examples
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Grecisms, are the first open sign of two movements which profoundly affected the prose of the earlier and later empire.
Latin Literature 1902
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Its rude literal fidelity imported into Christian Latin an enormous mass of Grecisms and Hebraisms -- the latter derived from the original writings, the former from the Septuagint version of the Old
Latin Literature 1902
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Hebraisms and Grecisms are to be found in him, without the trouble of learning the languages.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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Hebraisms and Grecisms are to be found in him without the trouble of learning the languages.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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Even Milton has been justly censured for his free use of Latinisms and Grecisms.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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I hope he will grant us, that his Thoughts are elevated, his Words sounding, and that no Man has so happily copy'd the manner of Homer; or so copiously translated his Grecisms and the Latin Elegancies of
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Milton "a rough unhewen fellow;" and Dryden himself, even in the dedication to the Translation from Juvenal, a work of his advanced life, alleges, that, though he found in that poet a true sublimity, and lofty thoughts, clothed with admirable Grecisms, he did not find the elegant turn of words and expression proper to the Italian poets and to Spenser.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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