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Gothicism|ˈgɒθɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gothic a. + -ism.]
1. Rudeness, barbarism; absence of polish or taste; an instance of this.
1710Shaftesbury Charac. (1727) I. iii. 221–2 Barbarity and Gothicism were already enter'd into Arts, ere the Savages had made any Impression on the Empire. 1753H. Walpole Let. to Gray 20 Feb., Were I to print any thing with my name, it should be plain Horace Walpole; Mr. is one of the Gothicisms I abominate. 1769J. Strange Acc. Rom. Antiq. in Archæologia (1770) I. 295 Precision in all their works..distinguishes them [Roman works] from the unmeaning strokes of Gothicism. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 48 The Oriental gothicism practised by the printers of silk and other handkerchiefs, which now disgrace the national taste. 1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 28 Visiting the galleries and palaces of Rome, I felt an itching to put my Gothicisms on paper. 1828[J. R. Best] Italy as it is 144 After a long night of tasteless Gothicism.
2. Conformity or devotion to the Gothic style of architecture.
1754Gray Wks. (1825) 181 Strawberry-Castle..has a purity and propriety of gothicism in it..that I have not seen elsewhere. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 431 They seem to have lost their ancient taste for painting and architecture, and to be returning to Gothicism. 1805Whitaker Hist. Craven 431 A puerile affectation of what is called Gothicism. 1953Archit. Rev. CXIII. 123/3 The Gothic motifs of Wollaton rightly registered as Gothicism, that is revival and not survival.
3. a. The study of the Gothic language. b. Conformity to Teutonic notions. (Cf. Gothic a. 2.) c. A Gothic idiom.
a.1806Chalmers Exam. Lang. Lyndsay Wks. I. 160 The singular use of qu, and quh, which appear, frequently, in Lyndsay..Mr. Sibbald..in his zeal for Gothicism, has endeavoured to derive from an unknown character (☉) in the Gothic Gospels of Ulphilas.
b.1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 326 The book had been grand, if the Hebraism had been omitted, and the law stated without Gothicism.
c.1818in Todd (with quot. 1806 as example); and in later Dicts.
So ˈGothicist, one who affects or is conversant with the Gothic style, esp. in architecture.
1861Illustr. Lond. News 13 July 34/1 The Gothicists had no hope of establishing their principle. 1879Sir G. Scott Recoll. vii. 321, I so inspired my fellow-pupil, though not much of a gothicist, that he walked there [S. Albans]. 1891Athenæum 15 Aug. 230/3 The craftsmanship of Clovio has never excited the admiration of artists to anything like the same degree as the..illuminations of the Gothic miniaturists, although..the technique of the Gothicists is not for a moment to be compared with Giulio's. |