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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of malism.

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  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, malism.

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Examples

  • Propp's techniques, though they have had wide impact, did not receive much recognition in Soviet Russia until re - cently because, at a time when Socialist Realism drew the strictest ideological lines, they savored of For - malism — an ironic circumstance, in view of the for - malistic objections lodged against Stoffgeschichte.

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

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