Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A classic idiom or style; classicism.
- noun In art, attempted adherence to the rules of Greek or Roman art; imitation of classic art.
- noun Knowledge of the classics and of what relates to them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
- noun Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
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- noun
classicism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
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Examples
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Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism, etc. Read on site
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Nor is it merely wasted wealth or distempered conception which we have to regret in this Renaissance architecture: but we shall find in it partly the root, partly the expression of certain dominant evils of modern times -- over-sophistication and ignorant classicalism; the one destroying the healthfulness of general society, the other rendering our schools and universities useless to a large number of the men who pass through them.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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The Church, on its side, drew away in the persons of its leaders from its earlier tradition, with all that it involved in the growth of a wholly new thought and art, and armed or hampered itself with that classicalism from which it never again got quite free.
Latin Literature 1902
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