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Definition of Modernisms
1. modernism [n] - See also: modernism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernisms
Literary usage of Modernisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"... which are well worthy of quotation, though I must confess that the "alien
modernisms" trouble me not a little: "The critics of recent days have had much ..."
2. The Modern Greek Language in Its Relation to Ancient Greek by Edmund Martin Geldart (1870)
"In the first place, it is obviously not enough to count up a number of modernisms
in two docu- ... modernisms ..."
3. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"... candid and pleasant insistence on the art-things of Munich, modernisms and
others—the modernisms mostly already middle-aged, and to be, too composedly, ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1843)
"Paraphrases as free, and as full of modernisms as Pope's Homer, may be worn by
the hands of many on account of these same modernisms, but will be read with ..."
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