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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Classicism \Clas"si*cism\, noun A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
classicism
noun: a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" [ant: {romanticism}]
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