euphuist

euphuist noun: someone who writes with euphuism.

Noun (1)

euphuist (plural euphuists)

Euphuist (plural Euphuists)

Alternative letter-case form of euphuist.
- There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture of abstruse calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening, his arms folded in the same angle, his eyes turned up to the same cobwebs, and his heels resting on the ground as before.1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John...
- The eloquence of the bar, the pulpit, and the council-board, was deformed by conceits which would have disgraced the rhyming shepherds of an Italian academy. The King quibbled on the throne. We might, indeed, console ourselves by reflecting that his Majesty was a fool. But the Chancellor quibbled...1828 January, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art[icle] I.—The Poetical Works of John Dryden. In 2 volumes. University Edition. London, 1826.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume...

From Euphues + -ist, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578); see euphuism for more.

What does euphuist mean?: Euphuist means someone who writes with euphuism.
What part of speech is euphuist?: Euphuist is a noun.
What is the plural of euphuist?: The plural of euphuist is euphuists.

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