A modern critic who censures the Latinisms of Du Vair’s style, admits that his treatise on eloquence makes an epoch in the language.
In attacking latinisms in the language borrowed from older poets Cheke and his companions were attacking the two chief sources of Elizabethan poetic vocabulary.
That Milton's language is saturated with Latinisms and Italianisms is perfectly true.
One other function performed by Browne's latinisms must be mentioned, because it is closely connected with the most essential and peculiar of the qualities which distinguish his method of writing.
If once the ornate style be allowed as a legitimate form of art, no attack such as Mr. Gosse makes on Browne's latinisms can possibly be valid.
For it is surely an error to judge and to condemn the latinisms without reference to the whole style of which they form a necessary part.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "latinisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
