classicalism

Once landed, I began to wish that the comparison I had drawn for the Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.

In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.

In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.

Elegance -- N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c. adj.; concinnity†, euphony, numerosity†; Atticism†, classicalism†, classicism. well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place; antithesis &c.

He is also wholly free from Italianizing tendencies: his classicalism even is that of an English student,—of a schoolboy, indeed, if he be compared with a Jonson or a Milton.