verist
(ˈvɪərɪst)
[f. L. vēr-um (neut.) or It. ver-o true + -ist. Cf. veritist.]
One who believes in or practises the rigid representation of the truth or reality in literature or art. Also attrib.
| 1884 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 395 This observation..would lead us to a controversy with the verists, realists, naturalists, or whatever their name. 1899 Academy 18 Feb. 213/2 These provoked the Verist reaction which followed. |
Hence veˈristic a.
| 1884 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 450 The veristic school does indeed go too far in holding up the things of sense as exclusively true and real. 1891 Blackw. Mag. CL. 869/1 The keynote of George Eliot's art Signor Negri qualifies as essentially realistic, or, as he puts it, veristic. |