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Noun: Byronism
  1. 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"
     
  2. 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"
     
  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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