Gothicism

American  

[goth-uh-siz-uhm] / ˈgɒθ əˌsɪz əm /

noun

1. conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.

2. the principles and techniques of the gothic style.

3. (sometimes lowercase) barbarism; crudeness.

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Gothicism British  

/ ˈɡɒθɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

1. conformity to, use of, or imitation of the Gothic style, esp in architecture

2. crudeness of manner or style

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Etymology

Origin of Gothicism

First recorded in 1700–10; Gothic ( def. ) + -ism

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Example Sentences

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Gothicism

And, "Gothicism, whatever it is, is not a literary tradition so much as a fairly realistic assessment of modern life."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every sort of lie had arranged to meet in that work: false idealism, false Christianity, false Gothicism, false legend, false gods, false humans.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

Gothicism, driven southward, runs speedily to seed; an amazing luxuriance, a riot, strange flowers of heavy shapes and maddening savour; and then that worse corruption to follow a perfection premature.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The book had been grand, if the Hebraism had been omitted, and the law stated without Gothicism, as ethics, and with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.

From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the change came, it evinced that same blending of naturalism and Gothicism which defined the incipient romantic movement of the previous century.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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