classicalist

English

Etymology

From classical + -ist.

Noun

classicalist (plural classicalists)

  1. Synonym of classicist
    • 1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., [], →OCLC, § XXXIX, page 25:
      I shall not devote a fourth section to [Andrea] Palladio, nor weary the reader with successive chapters of vituperation; but I shall, in my account of the earlier architecture, compare the forms of all its leading features with those into which they were corrupted by the Classicalists; []

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