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Definition of Aesthetes
1. aesthete [n] - See also: aesthete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesthetes
Literary usage of Aesthetes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Singing of the Future by David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"CHAPTER IV STYLE (CONCLUDED) \ Style, spiritual atmosphere, not affected, simple,
convincing, effect on general public and on aesthetes.—Imaginative reason ..."
2. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1913)
"In order to be free, the aesthetes shun both friendship and marriage. ... Love,
the aesthetes will cultivate, but to promise perpetual love, they refuse, ..."
3. Down the Road: And Other Essays of Nature, Life, Literature, and Religion by William Valentine Kelley (1911)
"But he is perfectly correct in saying that what this chief of the aesthetes did
was simply to carry out in practice the doctrines of his cult. ..."
4. Artist and Public: And Other Essays on Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox (1914)
"No more than the aesthetes or the Impressionists were they conscious of any ...
The aesthetes had a doctrine; the Impressionists had a method and a technic. ..."
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