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1. Admiration or emulation of the poet Lord Byron.
   "Lermontov's Byronism apparently wasn't merely a kinship of contemporarality and random similarity in soul with Byron."
    
2. The characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.
   "The Byronism of these passages is of course odd, except that it is a Byronism of desire and not of deed."
    
3. Imitation of or belief in the ideals and lifestyle of Byron.
   "Modern Greece was associated with a political Byronism of a certain kind."

Type of: attitude, imitation, literary movement, mental attitude

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