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noun

Atticism n.

A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.

The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

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Etymology of 'Atticism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Atticism" Quotes from Famous Books

... idea of Mr. Webster's eloquence, of its characteristics and its value. The Attic school of oratory subordinated form to thought to avoid the misuse of ornament, and triumphed over the more florid practice of the so-called "Asiatics." Rome gave the palm to Atticism, and modern oratory has gone still farther in the same direction, until its predominant quality has become that of making sustained appeals to the understanding. Logical vigilance and long chains ...

— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... finished these two volumes of Pensees and the greater part of the Correspondance. This last has especially charmed me; it is remarkable for grace, delicacy, atticism, and precision. The chapters on metaphysics and philosophy are the most insignificant. All that has to do with large views with the whole of things, is very little at Joubert's command; he has no philosophy of history, no speculative intuition. He is the thinker of ...

— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... here also, which is no little fault. From the affectation of Atticism, and a more than ordinary attention to purity of diction, he has taken the liberty to turn the Roman names into Greek, to call Saturninus, [Greek], Chronius; Fronto, [Greek], Frontis; Titianus, [Greek], Titanius, and others still more ridiculous. With regard to the death of Severian, he informs ...

— Trips to the Moon • Lucian