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Kiplingese|kɪplɪˈŋiːz|
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The literary style and characteristics of the writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Also Kiplingˈesque a. [see -esque], resembling Kipling in style; so Kiplingˈesquely adv.; ˈKiplingish a., typical of Kipling or his works; ˈKiplingite [see -ite1 1 b], an admirer of Kipling; as adj., characteristic of Kipling; ˈKiplingize v. [see -ize] trans., to make Kipling-like.
1894‘Sunlight’ Year Bk. 1895 77 A glance at the adaptation is enough to reveal its Kiplingesque roll and emphasis. 1898Windsor Mag. Dec. 131/1 True Kiplingites. 1899‘G. F. Monkshood’ Kipling 188 Perhaps the most distinctly Kiplingite piece of prose in the whole book. 1899Westm. Gaz. 28 June 3/1 Thorpe..is, merely, the primitive Kiplingesque type of man transferred from the battle-field or the plains of India to the Stock Exchange. 1899Daily News 1 Dec. 8/2 The account of the making of the first axe..is told quite in the heroic style of Kingsley and Morris, flavoured here and there with more than a dash of ‘Kiplingese’. 1903Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 277/3 The whole poem..has another claim upon the attention of the reader as an example of Kiplingized Longfellow. 1905Chesterton Heretics iii. 45 The modern army is not a miracle of courage; it has not enough opportunities, owing to the cowardice of everybody else. But it is really a miracle of organization, and that is the truly Kiplingite ideal. Ibid. xx. 292 No man has any business to be a Kiplingite without being a politician, and an Imperialist politician. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iv. iii. 492 They served me up to the public in turgid degenerate Kiplingese. 1921G. B. Shaw Back To Methuselah iv. i. 170 You have actually Kiplingized me... He is said to have invented the electric hedge. I consider that in using it on me you have taken a very great liberty. 1928Weekly Dispatch 24 June 15/3 The road to home these days lies across the 49th degree of latitude between Bishops Rock and Nantucket. It is a sad, un-Kiplingish thought. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 692/3 It contains also quite a number of amusing and quite Kiplingesque ‘Just So’ stories. 1966Punch 8 June 826/1 Nor am I sure that the anonymous genius who originally picked ‘East of Suez’ to describe the sphere of our Asian involvement chose wisely. It's so emotively Kiplingesque, so redolent of imperial splendours and miseries. 1969Guardian 27 Nov. 14/6 No one ran Kiplingesquely amuck; no shot was fired in anger. 1972J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 53 The Green Eye of the Yellow God... It's Kiplingish... But it was written by J. Milton Hayes. 1973Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 16 Kiplingites will be interested to learn that Kipling Terrace, a Victorian development at Westward Ho!, North Devon, is to be auctioned next month. |