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Bunyanian

Bunyanian adjective: of or relating to John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Christian writer and preacher, best known for his allegorical book The Pilgrim's Progress.

Adjective

Bunyanian (comparative more Bunyanian, superlative most Bunyanian)

  1. Of or relating to John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Christian writer and preacher, best known for his allegorical book The Pilgrim's Progress.
    • And let us say of them, once for all, that, although not profound, neither were they shallow in thought, not metaphysical or imaginative, they were sufficiently suggestive, very scriptural, and charmingly child-like and Bunyanian in spirit and in style, and if never florid in language they were...1867, George Gilfillan, Remoter Stars in the Church Sky: Being a Gallery of Uncelebrated Divines

Forms of Bunyanian

comparativemore Bunyanian
superlativemost Bunyanian

Origin of Bunyanian

From Bunyan + -ian.

Questions about Bunyanian

What does Bunyanian mean?
Bunyanian means of or relating to John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Christian writer and preacher, best known for his allegorical book The Pilgrim's Progress.
What part of speech is Bunyanian?
Bunyanian is an adjective.

Words near Bunyanian in the dictionary

  1. bunyahs
  2. bunyak
  3. bunyaks
  4. Bunyan
  5. Bunyanesque
  6. Bunyanian
  7. Bunyard
  8. Bunyards
  9. bunyas
  10. bunyaviral
  11. bunyavirus

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