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Noun: Ossianism
  1. Writing in the style of Ossian and particularly writing in the epic or legendary vein which is of a recent period but which claims to belong to antiquity.
    "Scott's work can be seen as a link between the Ossianism of Runciman's first Celtic revival and the more developed Celtic revival of the late nineteenth century."

Type of: literary movement

Encyclopedia: Ossianism