modernism
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It contains some 700 pieces by the very modernest of the modernists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Caesars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Cæsars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John
The very modernest of modern wives would be the saving of him.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills
Vocabulary lists containing modernism
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