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unquixotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + quixotic.

Meanings

1. Not quixotic.
   • The astonishingly unquixotic behaviour in the 1615 novel occurs when faced with the very essence of the Christian's knight's foes: death and the devil. 2006, Frederick Alfred De Armas, Quixotic frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance art:
   • The old chivalric code and a more modern code of honour reveals itself in Stuart literature and the behaviour of quite unquixotic Englishmen. 1977, Brian Bond, Ian Roy, War and society: a yearbook of military history, Volume 2:

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