classicist
Americannoun
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an adherent of classicism in literature or art (contrasted with romanticist).
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an authority on the classics; a classical scholar.
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a person who advocates study of the ancient Greek and Roman classics.
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a student of ancient Latin and Greek
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a person who advocates the study of ancient Latin and Greek
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an adherent of classicism in literature or art
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Origin of classicist
Example Sentences
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Classicist Mary Beard pointed out that the ancient story has a “sting in the tale.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2022
In my naïveté, I once asked him whether it was better to be a Classicist or a Romantic.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
Pierre Boulez’s Berg is a known quality, and his “Chamber Concerto” is here clear, composed and almost Classicist.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015
At heart she is a Classicist — in love with the golden section, Egyptian antiquities and Renaissance frescoes.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2011
We are really, in studying the descriptive parts of the Classicist poets, very close to the theories of Mallarmé and the Symbolists which occupied us twenty years ago.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
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