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Grecism

[ gree-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
  2. adoption or imitation of this.
  3. an idiom or peculiarity of Greek.


Grecism

/ ˈɡriːˌsɪzəm /

noun

  1. a variant spelling (esp US) of Graecism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Grecism1

1560–70; < Medieval Latin Graecismus, equivalent to Latin Graec ( us ) Greek + -ismus -ism
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Example Sentences

There is a whole school of limp Grecism in England, which has grown up out of Keats's Grecian Urn, and which is now buttressed with philosophy and adorned with scholarship; and no doubt it does bear some sort of relation to Greece and to Greek life.

But this Anglican Grecism has the quality which all modern British art exhibits,—the very quality which the Greeks could not abide,—it is tinged with excess.

Homer is not dyed in Grecism as Pindar is.

An application of this word may be quoted, partaking of a Grecism, unless we mistake: "And whan the people felte the smell therof."

Here not to refuse = to accept; and is probably a Grecism.

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