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n. Aesthetic attitudes and principles manifested in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restraint.

n. Adherence to the aesthetic values embodied in ancient Greek and Roman art and literature.

n. Classical scholarship.

n. A Greek or Latin expression or idiom.

n. All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion

n. Classical scholarship

n. A Greek or Latin expression used in an English sentence

n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.

n. An idiom or the style of the classics.

n. The adoption or imitation of what is classical or classic in style.

n. Classical scholarship or learning.

n. a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

"Many other contemporaries, often in violent disagree - ment with Maurras and his group, also embraced what they called classicism: Julien Benda, a violent anti - romantic polemicist, highly rationalistic in outlook, recommended classicism."

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