- a variation of classicism.
classicalism
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There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
He is also wholly free from Italianizing tendencies: his classicalism even is that of an English student,—of a schoolboy, indeed, if he be compared with a Jonson or a Milton.
From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Francis Turner Palgrave
Once landed, I began to wish that the comparison I had drawn for the Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
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