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Byˈzantinism
[f. prec. + -ism.]
The style and methods of art (esp. of architecture) developed in the Byzantine empire. Also fig.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. x. 331 Italian painting..threw off with Giotto the last trammels of Byzantinism. 1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iii. 225 The antidote to Eastern Byzantinism is Western revolutionary humanism. 1963Times 21 Feb. 15/2 The Byzantinism of much academic criticism in America. 1967Economist 18 Mar. p. xxxix/3 The only way to cut through the dead wood is often to peddle influence in Rome... In the end it only aggravates the tendency to confuse political byzantinism with energetic administration. |