Augustanismn.
/əˈɡʌstənɪz(ə)m/, /ɔːˈɡʌstənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ɔˈɡəstəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /əˈɡəstəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ɑˈɡəstəˌnɪz(ə)m/ The state or fact of being Augustan (in various senses of Augustan adj.2); Augustan style or manner, esp. in literature.
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revival of learning (also letters, literature, etc.)1694
Augustanism1883
1883 Mag. of Art Jan. 70/1 The purity of its [sc. the house's] red-brick Augustanism has now been largely adulterated by modern stucco.
1903 T. Watts-Dunton in Chambers's Cycl. Eng. Lit. III. 5/1 [Gray's] chief poem, the famous elegy, furnishes a striking proof of the poet's slavery to Augustanism.
1904 Athenæum 16 Jan. 73/1 The period of Augustanism in English literature—that age of acceptance which began after Milton and ended with Gray and Collins.
1969 Arion 8 363 Tacitus began the Annals with a summary of the ambiguities of Augustanism.
2007 E. Rothstein Gleaning Modernity 32 Swift, Pope, and Fielding..are centerpieces for those stubborn souls who still believe in ‘neoclassicism’ or ‘Augustanism’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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