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monumentalism|mɒnjuːˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m| [f. monumental a. + -ism.] A monumental style; building on a grand scale.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 451/2 The plain lessons of the Crimean War were unheeded, and monumentalism became the ideal of coast defences. 1970H. Braun Parish Churches xiv. 174 A tower..supplies its church with the element of monumentalism, the dimension of which is height. |