Meaning of copyism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. plagiarism
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“There is no genial infusion of the principles of design, no appeal to the imagination, no initiation into art as such, but only a dry, hard copyism of model drawings, line by line, and shade by shade.”

“Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract.”

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