Marinistn.adj.
/məˈriːnɪst/, U.S. /məˈrinᵻst/ A. n.
An imitator of Marini's literary style (see Marinism n.).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > affectation in Italian style > practitioner of
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Marinist1838
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 297/1 The extravagant notions of the Italian Marinists.
1885 E. Gosse From Shakespere to Pope 15 Chiabrera..disdaining the folly of the Marinists,..attained a position somewhat analogous to that of Cowley.
1936 Mod. Lang. Notes 51 17 Linking the earlier exuberance of diction and style of the Marinists to the later exuberance of the imagination, such as was to be expounded by Edward Young.
1962 MLN 77 90 As one reads through the forest of commonplaces constituting the Poesie of the Bolognese Marinist Giramolo Preti, [etc.].
1976 Amer. Hist. Rev. 81 1049 The eighteenth-century literati..[gave] to the Galileans the credit for having saved Italian literature from the assaults of the Marinists.
B. adj.
Imitative of or favouring Marini's literary style.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > affected in Italian style
Della-Cruscan1815
Marinist1864
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 328/2 The Marinist school of poetry.
1963 MLN 78 16 Although an unqualified admirer of Marino, he [sc. Tesauro] takes his point of departure, methodologically speaking, from these ‘moderate-Baroque’ rather than from the ‘Marinist’ critics.
1988 Amer. Hist. Rev. 93 1081/1 The polarity between Petrarchan and Marinist ideals of expression participates in the dichotomy between humanist and scholastic views of the universe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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