copyism

noun copyisms

1. archaic, countable, uncountable 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.
2. archaic, countable, uncountable 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.