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fustianist en · NOUN

Etymology

From fustian + -ist.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A pompous writer.
   • I feel convinced therefore that your Lordship, fustianist though you may be, must have blushed to indulge in such pribble prabble 1834, a member of the Univversity of Cambridge, A Letter to the Right Rev. Dr. Philpotts:
   • and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero. 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 193:

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