copyisms

Noun

copyism (countable and uncountable, plural copyisms)

1. (archaic) A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.
   • There is no genial infusion of the principles of design, no appeal to the imagination, no initiation into art as such, but only a dry, hard copyism of model drawings, line by line, and shade by shade.1854, Putnam's Monthly, volume 4, page 201
2. (archaic) plagiarism
   • Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract.1820, The Christian Observer, volume 18, page 227