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Eliotian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Eliot + -ian.

Meanings

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 eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:

Forms

Relateds

Eliotesque

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