[f. prec. + -ISM.] The study and excessive use of attitudes.
1803. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XV. 324. It displays all the attitudinarianism of sophistry.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. § 78. The absence of posture-making in the works of the Pre-Raphaelites, as opposed to the Attitudinarianism of the modern school.