classicist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From classic + -ist.

Was he a romantic at heart or a classicist? — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
His understanding was solid, but he was a thorough classicist, and his taste in poetry was formed on Pope. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
[1] =El Romanticismo.= The Romantic School of writers which started in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a revolt against the traditions of the Classicists. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson

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