[f. L. epigrammat- (see EPIGRAMMATIC) + -ISM.] Epigrammatic style.

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1813.  Jane Austen, Lett., 4 Feb. (1870). The playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.

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a. 1849.  Poe, F. S. Osgood, Wks. 1865, III. 95. A rich tint of that epigrammatism for which the poetess is noted.

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