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Definition of Eclecticisms
1. eclecticism [n] - See also: eclecticism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclecticisms
Literary usage of Eclecticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... compilations, eclecticisms, imitations. A creation of art has been aptly
compared to the union between body and soul, making the whole humanity; ..."
2. Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen (1904)
"... owing to the bad taste of the public, he felt that his ingenious eclecticisms
combined the various merits of Sophocles, Racine, and Shakespeare. ..."
3. The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1906)
"The very exclusiveness which condemned the man to solitude, safeguarded the artist
against dissipation of energy and futile eclecticisms of method. ..."
4. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"The real art of latter-day Japan, despite the purists, is not found in the various
eclecticisms and revivals, but in the continued tradition of Ukiyo-ye. ..."
5. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
""All the eclecticisms of style are met with in this unheard-of idiom, in which [Erik
Satie please note] apocalyptic phrases jostle cock-and-bull stories, ..."
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