dilettantism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dilettantism
First recorded in 1800–10; dilettante + -ism
Example Sentences
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He is brisk as ever; his kindly Dilettantism looking sometimes as if it would grow a sort of Earnest by and by.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
Dilettantism, 60, 146, 154, 212; gracefully idle in Mayfair, 188.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
Dilettantism is universal, and a smattering of erudition, infinitely more offensive than honest and manly ignorance, has usurped the place which was formerly occupied by genuine and liberal learning.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine
Italy put up silently with Practical Lies of all kinds; and, shrugging its shoulders, preferred going into Dilettantism and the Fine Arts.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas
Dilettantism treated seriously, and knowledge pursued mechanically, end by becoming pedantry.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
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