Word Meanings - ROMANTICIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Related words: (words related to ROMANTICIST)

• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• MODERNNESS
  The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.
• MODERNLY
  In modern times. Milton.
• MODERNITY
  Modernness; something modern. Walpole.
• MODERNISM
  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
• MODERNIZE
  To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.
• MODERNIZER
  One who modernizes.
• LITERATURE
  1. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. 2. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• MODERNIST
  One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
• ROMANTICISM
  A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He may be said to have begun the
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• ILLITERATURE
  Want of learning; illiteracy. Ayliffe. Southey.