Classicism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Classicism \Clas"si*cism\, n.
     A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  classicism
       n : a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th
           centuries in Europe that favored rationality and
           restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its
           models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" [ant: {romanticism}]