classicalist means synonym of classicist. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From classical + -ist.
noun
- Synonym of classicist.“I shall not devote a fourth section to [Andrea] Palladio, nor weary the reader with successive chapters of vituperation; but I shall, in my account of the earlier architecture, compare the forms of all its leading features with those into which they were corrupted by the Classicalists; […]”