antiromance
antiromance noun: a novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
Noun
antiromance (plural antiromances)
- A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
- Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]1990, Julie Stone Peters, Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word, page 114
Forms of antiromance
| plural | antiromances |
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Origin of antiromance
From anti- + romance.
Questions about antiromance
- What does antiromance mean?
- Antiromance means a novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
- What part of speech is antiromance?
- Antiromance is a noun.
- What is the plural of antiromance?
- The plural of antiromance is antiromances.
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