1. a person who practices or advocates Atticism, especially in language, style, or literary taste
Usage: often capitalized; historical/literary context; refers to imitation of classical Athenian Greek style
2. a writer or speaker who uses pure, refined Attic Greek or adopts Athenian literary conventions
Usage: classical studies; archaic

Examples

• The scholar was known as an atticist for her insistence on classical purity in Greek prose.
• Renaissance humanists often styled themselves as atticists, emulating the elegance of ancient Athens.
• His atticist approach to language made his writing formal and sometimes difficult for modern readers.
• The atticist movement emphasized refined taste and adherence to classical models.
• She criticized the atticist tendency to reject all linguistic innovation as vulgar.