[f. COPY sb. or v. + -ISM.] The practice of copying or imitating; an instance of such practice. (Usually contemptuous.)
1814. Byron, Wks. (1832), III. 70. If there be any copyism, it must be in the two poems, where the same versification is adopted.
1846. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. VI. i. § 27. The meanest and most ignorant copyism of vulgar details.
