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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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classicism
Word definitions for classicism in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion. 2 (context uncountable English) Classical scholarship. 3 (context countable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"classical style in art or literature," 1830, from classic + -ism . Related: Classicist .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm, his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit. ▪ However, the chromaticism of the series breaks up the association with classicism to a large ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Classicism \Clas"si*cism\, n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" [ant: romanticism ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Classicism , in the arts , refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and ...
Usage examples of classicism.
His virilia, which he has always regarded as boyish, appear to mesh with this classicism: just Praxitelean enough to avert ridicule if not to summon awe.
We hear a great deal about romanticism as contradistinguished from classicism, but it is seldom that we have the line of demarcation between the two tendencies or schools drawn for us.
In the larger study of the opera made in another place, I have attempted to show that the contest is in reality the one which is always waging between the principles of romanticism and classicism, a contest which is essentially friendly and necessary to progress.
And with respect to classicism likewise, there is the classicism that finds an achievement of the recognized forms easy and can play with them at will, expressing through them its own creative aims in a rich and vital way.
A country flung two thousand years back in an orgy of Classicism could find no place for him and no use.
But they would find enough classicism at Ansbach, he promised them, and he entered with sympathetic intelligence into their wish to see this former capital when March told him they were going to stop there, in hopes of something typical of the old disjointed Germany of the petty principalities, the little paternal despotisms now extinct.
They could make sure, afterwards, of a personal pleasure in a certain prescient classicism of the house.
His video self has a cold masculine classicism only marginally compromised by scars, skeletal forearms, the inchoate pudge about his middle.