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- noun
Imitation of the Ancient Greekpoet Pindar .
Etymologies
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Pindar + -ism
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Examples
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From 1554 to 1560, abandoning his Pindarism, he was in discipleship to Anacreon [1] and
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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Pindarism prevailed about half a century; but at last died gradually away, and other imitations supply its place.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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Pindarism prevailed about half a century; but, at last, died gradually away, and other imitations supply its place.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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