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dileˈttantism
Also dileˈttanteism.
[f. as prec. + -ism: so mod.F. dilettantisme, adm. by Acad. in 1878.]
The practice or method of a dilettante; the quality or character of dilettanti.
1809H. More Cœlebs I. 119 (Jod.) She..extolled the air with all the phrases, cant and rapture of dilettanteism. 1830Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 90 The sin of this age is dilettantism: the Whigs and all ‘moderate Tories’ are dilettanti. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. xii. 182 Virtue no longer means manhood: it is simply dilettantism. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. iv. 187 A national society..has no right to indulge in religious dilletanteism. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 22 A period, for Italy, of sceptical dilettanteism. 1894Times 23 Feb. 4/4 To prevent their falling into an attitude of indifference or dilettantism. |