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Juvenalian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Juvenal + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Juvenal or to his (satirical) works or style.
   • 2019, Ronald Paulson, The Fictions of Satire, Johns Hopkins University Press, Open access edition, unnumbered page, At its most Juvenalian, it follows from Horace's Venusian ancestors, who guarded the Roman border against barbarians, as Horace does figuratively now.
   • The satiric voice, as Gadeken (2002) argues, is more Juvenalian in tone, but is confined almost exclusively to the narrator. 2007, Joseph F. Bartolomeo, “14: Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction”, in Ruben Quintero, editor, A Companion to Satire, page 271:
   • The satire here is more heavy-handed and the tone more Juvenalian than in any passage in the first volume. 1986, Emory Elliott, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810, Oxford University Press, page 191:

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