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lyrism

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lyr·ism  (lrzm)
n.
Lyricism.

[French lyrisme, from Greek lurismos, act of playing on the lyre, from lura, lyre.]

lyrism
lyricism. — lyrist, n.
See also: Verse
the act or art of playing the lyre. — lyrist, n.
See also: Music


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But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive; and the first day of this visit had become the most fatal epoch of his life.
The purely human reality is capable of lyrism but not of abstraction.
 
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