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lyrism

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lyr·ism (l

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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.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

The purely human reality is capable of lyrism but not of abstraction.

Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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