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ro·man·ti·cism

(rō-măn′tĭ-sĭz′əm)

1. often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

2. Romantic quality or spirit in thought, expression, or action.

ro·man′ti·cist n.

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Noun	1.	romanticist - someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality sentimentalist individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	2.	romanticist - an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism romantic artist, creative person - a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination classicist - an artistic person who adheres to classicism
Adj.	1.	romanticist - belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" romantic, romanticistic

Translations

romantico

romanticist

[rəʊˈmæntɪsɪst] N he's a bit of a romanticist → es un romántico

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romanticist

n (Art, Liter, Mus: also Romanticist) → Romantiker(in) m(f)

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Critics of literary history have again [96] and again remarked upon it; it is a characteristic which reveals itself in many different forms, but is strongest and most sympathetic in what is strongest and most serious in modern literature; it is exemplified by writers as unlike Wordsworth as the French romanticist poets.

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Idealist and romanticist that I was and always had been in spite of my analytical nature, yet I had failed till now in grasping much of the physical characteristics of love.

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"I am quite sure, Prince," she said, "that you are a romanticist. But, apart from the sentimental side of it, do things like this happen in your country?"

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There is, among the Romanticists, a general breaking away not only from the definite pseudo-classical principles, but from the whole idea of submission to fixed authority.

In it he employs Spenser's stanza, with real skill, but in a half-jesting fashion which the later eighteenth-century Romanticists also seem to have thought necessary when they adopted it, apparently as a sort of apology for reviving so old-fashioned a form.

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That was left for the romanticists of our own century to discover; even the romanticists whom Goldoni drove from the stage, were of that simpler eighteenth-century sort who had not yet liberated the individual from society, but held him accountable in the old way.

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The appeal to antiquity is fatal to us who are romanticists."

"Romanticists! You have all the methods of science."

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Sometimes it is pleasing to view a romanticist's abundant design expression.

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For years after the accident, he immersed in theater-acting and took on various roles as Jesus Christ in various 'cenakulo' plays, as well as poet and romanticist Huseng Batute (Jose Corazon de Jesus in real life), among others.

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Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet, as the person responsible for the "last minute proofreading" (see "Series Editors' Preface") I can shed some light on situation.

ON JULIAN EILMANN'S J.R.R. TOLKIEN: ROMANTICIST AND POET, REVIEWED BY KRIS SWANK IN MYTHLORE #132

The Third of May 1808 and La maja desnuda are works by which Spanish romanticist painter?