lit·er·ary·ism
| \ -rēˌizəm \
plural -s
Definition of literaryism
: an instance of or tendency to use excessive refinement of expression in written compositions
every literaryism … fritters away a scrap of the reader's patience— Ezra Pound
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The first known use of literaryism was in 1879
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