Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to modern Greece or Hollas.
- Relating to neo-Hellenism.
- Relating to the vernacular language of modern Greece, the Romaic.
- noun Same as
Romaic. I. Taylor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
Romaic .
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Examples
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Certainly, there was no trace here of sombre German gothicism and all that old - fashioned stuff; under the hands of my friend, the piece ran along the keyboard with a degree of "Greek serenity" that left me at a loss whither to turn; in my innocence I deemed myself transported to a neo-hellenic synagogue, from the musical cultus of which all old testamentary accentuations had been most elegantly eliminated.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848
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