Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Aesthetic attitudes and principles manifested in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restraint.
- n. Adherence to the aesthetic values embodied in ancient Greek and Roman art and literature.
- n. Classical scholarship.
- n. A Greek or Latin expression or idiom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion
- n. Classical scholarship
- n. A Greek or Latin expression used in an English sentence
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An idiom or the style of the classics.
- n. The adoption or imitation of what is classical or classic in style.
- n. Classical scholarship or learning.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. 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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Many other contemporaries, often in violent disagree - ment with Maurras and his group, also embraced what they called classicism: Julien Benda, a violent anti - romantic polemicist, highly rationalistic in outlook, recommended classicism.
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It will be fun to see how the local form of ballet classicism is looking.
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At the opposite end of the scale of cinematic classicism is the offbeat Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, William Greaves's meta-film from 1968, now released on DVD by Criterion along with its modern companion, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½.
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His style is described as classicism with a young modern twist.
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These two critical and literary powers brought in the reign of what is called classicism in France.
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The liberals, on the other hand, without repudiating classicism, which is a sort of a foster-brother to liberalism, since both trace their origin to the Renaissance, still favored ODESSA: MY FAMILY AND MY SCHOOL the realschule.
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It is simply for convenience, therefore, that we study eighteenth-century writings in three main divisions: the reign of so-called classicism, the revival of romantic poetry, and the beginnings of the modern novel.
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The writings of the century are here arranged in three main divisions: the reign of formalism (miscalled classicism), the revival of romantic poetry, and the development of the modern novel.
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The movements represented by Locke's philosophy, by the rationalizing school in theology, and by the so-called classicism of Pope and his followers, are different phases of the same impulse.
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It is that which explains the mixture of "romanticism," "naturalism," and I will add, of "classicism" -- which has been pointed out more than once in Flaubert's work.
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