stylismn.
/ˈstʌɪlɪz(ə)m/ A stylistic device or effect; emphasis on style.
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stylism1928
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stylism1958
1928 H. Crane Let. 5 Feb. (1965) 317 I am not as original in some of my stylisms as I had thought I was.
1942 Mind 51 241 Spinoza's constant use of ‘quatenus’ rather than ‘qua’ is no mere stylism, but is closely bound up with his rejection of the abstractional view of knowledge.
1958 Times 30 Sept. 3/1 The German company..proves to be a finely cast body of actors with an inevitably stronger feeling for classical stylism.
1971 R. ap Roberts Trollope i. 15 Both symbolic explanation and stylism, then, are overworked for fiction.
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