Austenish

Adjective

Austenish (comparative more Austenish, superlative most Austenish)

1. Synonym of Austenian (“reminiscent of the works of Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist noted for realism and biting social commentary”).
   • And she gives us the peculiarly Austenish pleasure of watching good, intelligent, and articulate people work their way through much painful error to the relief of shared understanding.1968, Irvin Stock, Mary McCarthy, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 25
   • The Egoist takes place in an Austenish world of country houses—more than Austenish, indeed, for despite Williams’s depreciating comment that Austen’s ‘country is weather or a place for a walk’, her walks at least strike out across fields and take to public roads.1993, Anne D. Wallace, Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, pages 212–213

   Synonyms:

   Austenian