imagist

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From image +‎ -ist.

Noun

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imagist (plural imagists)

  1. (art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
    • 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.
    • 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:
      D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.

Adjective

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imagist (comparative more imagist, superlative most imagist)

  1. Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
    • 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:
      D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.
    • 2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion:
      Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.
    • 2016, Mark Sandy, Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century, page 48:
      Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.

See also

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English imagist.

Adjective

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imagist m or n (feminine singular imagistă, masculine plural imagiști, feminine and neuter plural imagiste)

  1. imagist

Declension

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Noun

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imagist m (plural imagiști)

  1. imagist

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