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Ruskinian

Ruskinian adjective: of or pertaining to John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, critic, and artist.

Adjective

Ruskinian (comparative more Ruskinian, superlative most Ruskinian)

  1. Of or pertaining to John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, critic, and artist.
    • It was constructed from local materials and completed in 1842; it is Victorian but looks Romanesque; Ruskinian in its simplicity, it pre-dates Ruskin by a decade.2012, Frances Wilson, “Evergreen Architecture”, in Literary Review, section 402

Forms of Ruskinian

comparativemore Ruskinian
superlativemost Ruskinian

Origin of Ruskinian

From Ruskin + -ian.

Questions about Ruskinian

What does Ruskinian mean?
Ruskinian means of or pertaining to John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, critic, and artist.
What part of speech is Ruskinian?
Ruskinian is an adjective.

Words near Ruskinian in the dictionary

  1. Ruskie
  2. Ruskies
  3. Ruskin
  4. Ruskinese
  5. Ruskington
  6. Ruskinian
  7. rusks
  8. Rusky
  9. Ruslan
  10. Ruslana
  11. rusma

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