satyre
satyre is the alternative spelling of satyr.
satyre is the obsolete spelling of satire.
Meaning of satyr
Noun
satyr (plural satyrs)
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
male variation of nymphs1637, John Milton, Lycidas
- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
- Synonym of faun.
- Synonyms:
- faun
- A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.
Meaning of satire
Noun
satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires)
- A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
- Satire deflates and debases. It is an art which topples greatness, undermines pretension and punishes pride by revealing the low in the pretendedly high, the filth in the pure, the folly in reason. This belittling trick deploys telescopic lenses which picture the human as lesser and lower, or as a...2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.148
- A satirical work.
- a stinging satire of American politics.
- Severity of remark.
- CAESAR. No, by the gods! would that it had been! Vengeance at least is human. No, I say: those severed right hands, and the brave Vercingetorix basely strangled in a vault beneath the Capitol, were (with shuddering satire) a wise severity, a necessary protection to the commonwealth, a duty of...1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
Forms of satyre
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Questions about satyre
- What is satyre the alternative spelling of?
- Satyre is the alternative spelling of satyr.
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