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English Dictionary: classicalism by the DICT Development Group
2 results for classicalism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
classicalism
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): classicism, classicalism
    Antonym(s): Romantic Movement, Romanticism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Classicalism \Clas"sic*al*ism\, n.
      1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
  
      2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the
            classical canons of art.
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