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Definition of Classicism

1. Noun. A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms. "Classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"

Definition of Classicism

1. n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.

Definition of Classicism

1. Noun. All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion ¹

2. Noun. Classical scholarship ¹

3. Noun. A Greek or Latin expression used in an English sentence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Classicism

1. [n -S]

Literary usage of Classicism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"That in all it was a reversion not to the Latin classicism of the Augustans, but to Hellenism, is sufficiently obvious. And, so far, it was not only ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"It is certainly true that, as regards the special subject of this particular Book — the criticism of orthodox neo-classicism in the eighteenth century ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"It is certainly true that, as regards the special subject of this particular Book — the criticism of orthodox neo-classicism in the eighteenth century ..."

4. The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History by Albert J. Schmidt (1989)
"For him the human factor—Peter, Catherine, and Alexander—was paramount in the rise of Russian classicism.31 In his analysis of the Empire style Kurbatov ..."

5. The Classical Influence in English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: And by William Chislett (1918)
"classicism, Romanticism and Realism. NOTHING is less final than the ... To define classicism, romanticism and realism in general is as difficult as to apply ..."

6. The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History by Albert J. Schmidt (1989)
"classicism, which became for him the embodiment of "enlightenment and humanism ... For Alekseeva, the socio-economic context for Russian classicism assumed ..."

7. A Book of Operas, Their Histories, Their Plots and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1909)
"The melodies are of two sorts conforming to the two parties into which the personages 1 " In the musical contest it is only the perverted idea of classicism ..."

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