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copyism en · NOUN

Etymology

From copy + -ism.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.
   • There is no genial infusion of the principles of design, no appeal to the imagination, no initiation into art as such, but only a dry, hard copyism of model drawings, line by line, and shade by shade. 1854, Putnam's Monthly, volume 4, page 201:
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) plagiarism
   • Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract. 1820, The Christian Observer, volume 18, page 227:

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