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You are wasting time, and money, and energy upon it, and though you exhaust centuries and treasuries, and break hearts for it, you will never raise it above the merest dilettanteism.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

There is an air of dilettanteism about the whole production.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

This was at the close of the fifteenth century when Yoshimasa practised dilettanteism at Higashi-yama.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

Since Woodbury does not think abstinence to be the cure of intemperance, could he not justify his practice by a higher principle than self-indulgence, lay it on a deeper foundation than dilettanteism?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

Mr. Harrower and his coadjutors grew communicative, and vented an infinite quantity of the jargon of dilettanteism upon each other and upon those about them.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various