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Eliotian

Eliotian adjective: of or pertaining to George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist.

Adjective

Eliotian (comparative more Eliotian, superlative most Eliotian)

  1. 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
  2. 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

comparativemore Eliotian
superlativemost 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

  1. Eliopoulos
  2. Eliopouloses
  3. eliopsomo
  4. Eliot
  5. Eliotesque
  6. Eliotian
  7. Eliotic
  8. Eliott
  9. Eliphalet
  10. eliprodil
  11. elipsocid

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