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Definition of Exoticisms
1. exoticism [n] - See also: exoticism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exoticisms
Literary usage of Exoticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"I could never believe that Roughness and Obscurity added any thing to the true
Grandeur of a Poem ; nor will I ever affect Archaisms, exoticisms, ..."
2. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"Even habentes when one has made up one's mind to it, together with less obvious
exoticisms, does not upset one as “the steep of Delphos leaving. ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1858)
"Nor will I ever affect archaisms, exoticisms, and a quaint uncouthness of speech,
in order to become perfectly Miltonian." This declaration was probably ..."
4. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"So with his later music ; he only needs to employ those self-conscious and
self-willed exoticisms of harmony and rhythm because he is not sufficiently ..."
5. The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Georges Daniel de Monfreid by Paul Gauguin (1922)
"... "Noa Noa," written in collaboration with Charles Morice where many of the more
romantic incidents of his life may be found—those exoticisms in which the ..."
6. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"added any thing to the true grandeur of a poem: nor will I ever affect archaisms,
exoticisms, and a quaint uncouthness of speech, in order to become ..."
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