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Webster 1913 Edition


Classicism

Clas′si-cism

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Noun.
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
C. Kingsley.

Definition 2024


classicism

classicism

English

Noun

classicism (countable and uncountable, plural classicisms)

  1. (uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  2. (uncountable) Classical scholarship.
  3. (countable) A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.

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