Definition of Eclecticisms

1. Noun. (plural of eclecticism) ¹

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Definition of Eclecticisms

1. eclecticism [n] - See also: eclecticism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclecticisms

eclampsy
eclamptic
eclamptic retinopathy
eclamptogenic
eclarite
eclat
eclats
eclectic
eclectic method
eclectically
eclecticise
eclecticised
eclecticises
eclecticising
eclecticism
eclecticisms (current term)
eclecticist
eclecticists
eclectick
eclectics
eclection
eclectism
eclegm
eclegms
eclesiastical
eclipsable
eclipse
eclipse blindness
eclipse period
eclipse phase

Literary usage of Eclecticisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... compilations, eclecticisms, imitations. A creation of art has been aptly compared to the union between body and soul, making the whole humanity; ..."

2. Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen (1904)
"... owing to the bad taste of the public, he felt that his ingenious eclecticisms combined the various merits of Sophocles, Racine, and Shakespeare. ..."

3. The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1906)
"The very exclusiveness which condemned the man to solitude, safeguarded the artist against dissipation of energy and futile eclecticisms of method. ..."

4. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"The real art of latter-day Japan, despite the purists, is not found in the various eclecticisms and revivals, but in the continued tradition of Ukiyo-ye. ..."

5. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
""All the eclecticisms of style are met with in this unheard-of idiom, in which [Erik Satie please note] apocalyptic phrases jostle cock-and-bull stories, ..."

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