romanticist
pronunciation
How to pronounce romanticist in British English:
UK ['rəʊmæntɪsɪst]
How to pronounce romanticist in American English:
US ['roʊmæntɪsɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
- an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism
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- Adjective:
- belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts
Word Origin
- romanticist (n.)
- 1821; see romantic + -ist.
Example
- 1. The italian might well be described as the world 's greatest romanticist .
- 2. On romanticist tendency in jane austen s pride and prejudice .
- 3. Some may say that we are romanticist , or even hopeless ldealists , what we are pledged to is possible , and for the one thousand and one time that our reply will be " yes indeed , we are just such kind of person " .
- 4. Hurstwood was something of a romanticist after his kind .
- 5. With wagner and beethoven , the classicist and romanticist brahms dominated the music of the 19th century .