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- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Grecophilia.
For a well-read contemporary of Goethe’s, in an age when German Graecophilia was greatest if not most “gründlich,” the “Klassische Walpurgisnacht” should have been immediately accessible.
1954, Comparative Literature, page 772 more examples
Among studies dealing philologically with the transmission of literary traditions and forms is Anton Gail’s erudite demonstration of the fruitful persistence of Latin literary influence beside the growing Graecophilia in Germany in the eighteenth century.
1957, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, page 681[…]Mazzini slept with Tacitus under his pillow—was in some things very old-fashioned, using the far past as a lever to unseat the near past, as his passionate Graecophilia and the defiant championing of the school logic sufficiently attest.
1963, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Essays on Philosophy and the Classics, page xii
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