[f. next + -ISM.] Use of or fondness for concetti in literature.
1854. Fraser’s Mag., XLIX. 140. Some artificial and Byzantine despotism, in which thought becomes pedantry, and poetry stereotyped concettism.
1859. Kingsley, Plays & Puritans (1873), 64. If mere concettism be a part of poetry, Quarles is as great a poet as Cowley or George Herbert.
