[f. prec. + -ISM.] Attachment to or practice of classical scholarship, art, etc.; = CLASSICISM.
1840. Arnold, in Life, II. App. C. 422. That foolery of classicalism which marks the Italians, and infects those with us who are called ‘elegant scholars.’
1846. Ruskin, Mod. Paint. (1851), I. II. i. vii. § 37. Compare the hybrid classicalism of Wilson with the rich English purity of Gainsborough.
1880. L. Stephen, Pope, ii. 29. The classicalism of Pope’s time was no doubt very different from that of the period of Erasmus.
