单词 | gothicism |
释义 | Gothicismn. 1. Rudeness, barbarism; absence of polish or taste; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > philistinism Gothicism1710 Gothism1715 philistinism1793 vandalism1798 Babbitry1920 Babbittism1925 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 69 Barbarity and Gothicism were already enter'd into Arts, e'er the Savages had made any Impression on the Empire. 1753 H. 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. 1769 J. Strange Acct. Rom. Antiq. in Archaeologia (1770) 1 295 Precision in all their works..distinguishes them [Roman works] from the unmeaning strokes of Gothicism. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 48 The Oriental gothicism practised by the printers of silk and other handkerchiefs, which now disgrace the national taste. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 28 Visiting the galleries and palaces of Rome, I felt an itching to put my Gothicisms on paper. 1828 H. D. Best Italy 144 After a long night of tasteless Gothicism. 2. Conformity or devotion to the Gothic style of architecture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > Gothic Gothicc1660 Gothicism1754 Gothicness1853 1754 T. Gray Let. 18 Sept. in Corr. (1971) I. 407 Strawberry-Castle..has a purity & propriety of Gothicism in it..that I have not seen elsewhere. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 431 They seem to have lost their ancient taste for painting and architecture, and to be returning to Gothicism. 1805 T. D. Whitaker Hist. Craven 431 A puerile affectation of what is called Gothicism. 1953 Archit. Rev. 113 123/3 The Gothic motifs of Wollaton rightly registered as Gothicism, that is revival and not survival. 3. a. The study of the Gothic language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Gothic > study of Gothicism1806 1806 G. Chalmers Exam. Lang. Lyndsay in 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. Conformity to Teutonic notions. (Cf. Gothic adj. 2.) ΚΠ 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 127 The book had been grand, if the Hebraism had been omitted, and the law stated without Gothicism. c. A Gothic idiom. ΚΠ 1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (with quot. 1806 as example); and in later Dicts. Derivatives ˈGothicist n. one who affects or is conversant with the Gothic style, esp. in architecture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > Gothic > adherent of Gothicizer1827 Goth1837 Gothicist1861 1861 Illustr. London News 13 July 34/1 The Gothicists had no hope of establishing their principle. 1879 G. G. Scott Recoll. vii. 321 I so inspired my fellow-pupil, though not much of a gothicist, that he walked there [i.e. to S. Albans]. 1891 Athenæum 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1710 |
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