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n. - Orthodoxy of a scholastic variety.

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Usage examples (8)
  • I want nature against ideas, formalism, academism.
  • Even in the days of baroque and academism the Italian theory remained in all countries the basic theory of art.
  • Not much interested in the academism and formalism of a research career within the French system that was then open to me, I returned to
  • It is probably in Switzerland that his influence was the most fertile: Bodmer borrows from him to fight against Gottsched's academism, and Sulzer takes him as a basis...
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