Definition of Pastoralisms

1. pastoralism [n] - See also: pastoralism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastoralisms

pastmaster
pastness
pastnesses
pastophori
pastophorus
pastor
pastorage
pastorages
pastoral
pastoral care
pastoral counseling
pastorale
pastorales
pastorali
pastoralism
pastoralisms (current term)
pastoralist
pastoralists
pastorally
pastoralness
pastoralnesses
pastorals
pastorate
pastorates
pastored
pastoress
pastoresses
pastoring
pastorium
pastoriums

Literary usage of Pastoralisms

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

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"Shakespeare deals little in pastoralisms. He gives us rather " the very form and pressure " of his time ; yet some- tunes he too turns from vivid experience ..."

2. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"from the pomp and gallantry, the effeminate pastoralisms, the dying seventeenth century. The Italian language he found weak, the Italian poets ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"... in his bitter revolt from the pomp and gallantry, the effeminate pastoralisms of the dying seventeenth century ; ' the Italian language he found weak, ..."

4. The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and by John Ruskin (1900)
"Still it is significative of pleasant parks, and well kept field walks, and herds of deer, and other such aristocratic pastoralisms, which have here and ..."

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