Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A recent name for a form of realism which takes pleasure in portraying what is debased or abnormal.

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Examples

  • The Western Art Circuit had been started up by a handful of painters and literary men in "the city"; among them, Abner Joyce, notable veritist; Adrian Bond, aesthete, yet not without praiseworthy leanings toward the naturalistic; Stephen Giles, decorator of the mansions of the great, but still not wholly forgetful of his own rustic origins; and one or two of the professors at the Art Academy.

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • As a matter of fact, Ponchielli, though he has been discovered as the father of the young veritist school of Italy, which seems already to have exhausted itself, was less original than Boito, who has distinguished himself above all the rout of Verdi's traducers and followers (for a space the category included the same names) by continence and self-criticism.

    Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • He was born in Provence and he died in Paris; he began as a poet and he ended as a veritist; and in each case there was logical evolution and not contradiction.

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Provençal poet into a brilliant Parisian veritist.

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • When the latest of the three volumes of short stories was published, and when the "Woman of Arles" was produced, the transformation was complete: the poet had developed into a veritist, without ceasing to be

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

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