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Definition of Aestheticisms
1. aestheticism [n] - See also: aestheticism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aestheticisms
Literary usage of Aestheticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"Carlyle's criticism came to this, that Tennyson had declined into a comparatively
sentimental and effeminate line of writing, mere ' aestheticisms ' instead ..."
2. Predestined: A Novel of New York Life by Stephen French Whitman (1910)
"... and, through a mist, one saw characters with unconventional beards and flowing
bows, the pioneers of aestheticisms once new, but now discarded, ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1895)
"There is nothing so agreeable to sense as pomp in worship, it is the commonest
and most imperious of all aestheticisms. All heathenism knew it, ..."
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