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Definition of Classicalities
1. classicality [n] - See also: classicality
Literary usage of Classicalities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1861)
"Then he lived among the classicalities and ... But the- result was a very deluge
of vapid classicalities, which had nearly' extinguished the native ..."
2. English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of by Adolph Charles Babenroth (1922)
"The subject is embroidered with classicalities because the gallant poet is
interested in fine compliments. Only cupids, the spies of Thetis, ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... in which its present soul abides and breathes, and not to its classicalities,
which are the empty shells upon its barren sea-shore. MIDSUMMER AND MAY. ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"At home, the intolerable, stupid classicalities, taught by men who, belonging to
the least erudite country in Europe, were themselves, from their profession ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"It is heavy, cumbrous, oratorical, overloaded with epithets, full of artificial
invocations, "personified abstractions," and insipid classicalities. ..."
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