Nietzsche

Proper noun

Nietzsche

1. A surname from German, most famously borne by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
   • You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
   • Girard critically examines Nietzsche's central contention that Christianity is a religion of sublimated vengeance or ressentiment and contents that although Nietzsche is half right about Christians he remains dangerously naive about violence itself.2008 November 24, Giles Fraser, “On the Genealogy of Morals, part 5: Breaking the cycle of conflict”, in The Guardian, →ISSN