Eliotian
Eliotian adjective: of or pertaining to George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist.
Adjective
Eliotian (comparative more Eliotian, superlative most Eliotian)
- Of or pertaining to George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist.
- The melodramatic moment elicits a characteristic Eliotian commentary on the complexity of human will.2016, A Companion to George Eliot, page 98
- Of or pertaining to Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic.
- The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged...1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521
Forms of Eliotian
| comparative | more Eliotian |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Eliotian |
Origin of Eliotian
From Eliot + -ian.
Questions about Eliotian
- What does Eliotian mean?
- Eliotian means of or pertaining to George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist.
- What part of speech is Eliotian?
- Eliotian is an adjective.
Words near Eliotian in the dictionary
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