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English
Etymology
From Ciceronian + -ism.
Noun
Ciceronianism (countable and uncountable, plural Ciceronianisms)
- Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action of Cicero.
a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. , London: for Henry Olney, , published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: , 1 April 1868, →OCLC:great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford
- A Ciceronian phrase or expression.