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Walpolian, a. and n.|wɔːlˈpəʊlɪən|
Also -ean.
[f. the name of Robert Walpole (1676–1745), politician, and of his son Horace Walpole (1717–97), writer and politician + -ian.]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Horace Walpole or his writings. Also applied to neo-Gothic architecture of a type popularized by Horace Walpole.
1867H. E. H. Jerningham Life in French Château vi. 165 She had seen through the empty-heartedness and true Walpolian sense of gratitude of those she had befriended. 1876Hardy Ethelberta II. xl. 146 A tendency to talk Walpolean scandal about foreign courts was particularly manifest. 1944J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 2 June in Prophesying Peace (1977) 71, I was fascinated by the Walpolian Gothic chapel. 1973Country Life 14 June 1726/1 The greatest Walpolian scholar, W. S. Lewis, remarked in 1934 that Strawberry Hill was ‘assembled rather than built’.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Robert Walpole or his political career.
1909J. M. Rigg in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VI. xiii. 424 He adhered to the Walpolean tradition of an entente cordiale with France. 1979N. & Q. Feb. 76/1 His appeal..to ‘custom and reason’, ‘the practice of former times’, and ‘the original principles of government’ could be used equally against American radicals and Walpolian oligarchs. 1983Ibid. Feb. 23/1 More substance still is given to his role as a Walpolean hack.
B. n. An admirer of Horace Walpole.
1927Observer 24 Apr. 6/2 No Walpolian can be satisfied with anything less than the complete Toynbee edition of the Letters.
So Walpoliˈana, -eˈana (see ana suffix).
1799(title) Walpoliana. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 785/2 Of the examples England has produced of this species of composition, perhaps the most interesting is the Walpoliana, a transcript of the literary conversation of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 136/4 If General Conway's house, grounds, and..views..are over-praised, they are only the more authentic as Walpoliana. 1959Times 16 May 8/5 There will be many on this side of the Atlantic who will be deeply grieved by the news of the death of Annie Burr, wife of Wilmarth Sheldon (‘Lefty’) Lewis, the eminent collector and editor of Walpoliana. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Feb. 161/2 Dr. Lewis's collector's flair and comfortable means enabled him to build up an unrivalled assemblage of Walpoleana—original Walpole letters and manuscripts, and books from Walpole's own library. |