[f. as prec. + -ITY.]
1. Classical quality or character (of literary or artistic style, of education, taste, etc.).
1819. Monthly Rev., LXXXIX. 366. An affectation of classicality.
1846. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. I. vii. § 37. The vile classicality of Canova and the modern Italians.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., x. (1860), 165. Campbell, as an author, was all for refinement and classicality.
2. Classical scholarship.
1831. Blackw. Mag., XXX. 54. The land … of mountains and mathematics—of clouds and classicality.
1841. For. Q. Rev., XXVI. 260 (L.). To make a display of this scrap of classicality which he [Napoleon] had just acquired.
3. An instance or piece of classical learning, art, etc.
1844. R. Ward, Chatsworth, I. 28. No vulgar classicalities shock the scholar’s eye.
1856. Sat. Rev., II. 735/2. Horatian quotations and the like small classicalities.
