Dickensianadj.n.

Brit.

/dᵻˈkɛnzɪən/, U.S.

/dəˈkɛnziən/

Etymology: < the name of Charles Dickens (1812–70), English novelist + -ian suffix.

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to Charles Dickens; belonging to or created by Dickens.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer

Lucianical1561

Xenophontean1593

Sidneian1599

Anastasian1621

Theophrastical1662

Menippean1693

Varronian1693

Herodotean1748

Shaftesburian1752

Cervantic1760

Alfredian1762

Swiftian1762

Richardsonian1763

Pepysian1765

Rabelaica1768

Rabelaisian1769

Johnsonian1775

Radcliffian1801

Southeyan1817

Lucianic1820

Xenophontic1822

Thucydidean1826

Walter Scottish1827

Voltairean1833

Juvenalian1839

Dickens-like1841

Dickensian1842

Voltairish1842

Hazlittian1844

Theocritean1846

Dickensish1849

Ruskinian1850

Ruskinesque1854

Dickensy1855

Dickenesque1856

Macaulayesque1856

Ruskinite1856

Thackerayan1857

Ruskinese1863

Macaulayish1865

Walpolian1867

Dickensesque1868

Voltairianized1872

Baconian1874

Balzacian1874

Morrisian1879

Isidorian1882

Poe-like1882

Peacockian1886

Poe-esque1886

Zolaesque1886

Macaulayan1887

Bunyanesque1888

Fieldingesque1888

Junian1888

Meredithian1888

Tacitean1890

Hugoesque1893

Hardyesque1894

Kiplingesque1894

Shawian1894

Maeterlinckian1895

Dickinsonian1896

Stevensonian1897

Austenish1898

Austenian1901

Leverish1903

Pateresque1903

Trollopian1903

Malorian1904

Shavian1904

Brontesque1905

Chestertonian1905

Jamesian1905

Leveresque1905

Jacobean1906

Carrollese1907

Hardyan1907

Stendhalian1907

Turgenevian1908

Ouidaesque1909

Galsworthian1912

Poeish1915

Paterian1918

Sitwellian1920

Conradian1921

Mallarméan1924

Theophrastian1924

Wildean1924

Pirandellian1925

Proustian1925

Flaubertian1926

Wodehousian1926

Joycean1927

Stracheyan1927

Theophrastic1928

Yeatsian1928

Lawrentian1930

Firbankian1931

Melvillean1931

Leavisite1934

Runyonesque1934

Kafka1936

Woolfian1936

Twainian1938

Rilkean1939

Audenesque1940

Hemingwayesque1942

Brontëan1945

Kafkaesque1947

Leavisian1947

Morrisan1949

Orwellian1950

Faulknerian1951

Hemingwayan1951

Greeneian1952

Arnoldian1953

Thurberesque1954

Tolkienian1954

Beckettian1958

Hemingwayish1959

Nabokovian1959

Pinteresque1960

Pinterish1960

Vernean1960

Waughian1960

Bradleian1961

Gravesian1961

Kafkian1962

Jules Vernean1964

Snovian1966

Pinterian1967

Lucianesque1969

Tolkienesque1970

Thoreauvian1975

Stubbsian1979

1842 John Bull 3 Dec. 584/2 The appeal to their sympathies on behalf of the Dickensian abra [= lady's maid].

1892 Spectator 16 Jan. 93/2 The quiet old city has..personal as well as literary Dickensian associations.

1980 R. B. Henkle Comedy & Culture iv. 154 Mr. Micawber, a celebrated Dickensian creation..is a man whose sphere for self-expression is circumscribed.

2012 V. Purton Dickens & Sentimental Trad. vi. 142 Hard Times is atypical in its uses of the sentimentalist tradition, as in so much else, which is why it is so often dealt with apart from the rest of the Dickensian oeuvre.

2. Resembling or characteristic of the writings, style, etc., of Charles Dickens, esp. with reference to the vivid descriptive passages, satirical observation of society, and humour and pathos contained in his work.

ΚΠ

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 24 Nov. 4/4 The characters in this Comedy are singularly Dickensian.

1881 Athenæum 19 Mar. 390/3 He [sc. Bret Harte] has a touch of Dickens in his style..he observes with a Dickensian eye.

1908 Sphere 21 Mar. 16/3 Those flashes of Dickensian humour for which Mr. Pett Ridge has so happy a knack.

1951 Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner 7 Jan. 3/5 ‘Son of a Hundred Kings’ is a rich Dickensian tale of a boy trying to make his way in a Canadian town during the ‘Gay Nineties’.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 30/2 Covering 350 years of European musical history, Steen sketches his canonic figures with Dickensian flair.

3. Reminiscent of the places, situations, people, etc., portrayed in the novels of Charles Dickens; esp. (in later use) evocative of the poor social conditions in Victorian England described by Dickens.

ΚΠ

1888 Liverpool Mercury 23 Nov. 5/4 It looks as though we were not to have a Dickensian Christmas, but one of a very dull type.

1902 E. C. B. Cook Highways & Byways in London (1903) xvii. 416 The very poor have always a certain rude, Dickensian, good nature.

1962 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/2 Fog as dense, if not as black, as anything that Dickensian London ever knew.

1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xiv. 128 The offices were laughably Dickensian.

2004 Guardian (Nexis) 13 May (Home section) 6 Thousands of students across Britain are living in Dickensian conditions in damp rented housing..overrun with vermin.

B. n.

An admirer or student of Charles Dickens or his work.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer

Tacitist1656

Johnsonian1778

Richardsonian1778

Miltonist1830

Voltairean1842

Dickensite1849

Shakespearolater1875

Cervantist1881

Rabelaisian1882

Dickensian1885

Peacockian1886

Zolaist1886

Meredithian1892

Hardyan1896

Janeite1896

Stevensonian1897

Kiplingite1898

Hazlittian1902

Austenite1903

Balzacian1905

Shavian1905

Boswellian1908

Jacobite1909

Thackerayan1909

Trollopian1910

Wellsian1916

Proustian1919

Sitwellian1920

Pirandellist1925

Thoreauvian1927

Walpolian1927

Austenian1928

Stendhalian1928

Poeist1929

Morrisite1936

Joycean1938

Wodehousian1939

Lucianist1940

Woolfian1944

Leavisite1946

Jamesian1954

Yeatsian1954

Leavisian1955

Lawrentian1957

Lawrentian1959

Beckettian1965

Orwellian1971

1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 1 Nov. 14/1 The true Dickensian regards this last point [sc. fidelity to nature] as ‘the root of the matter’.

1912 Publishers' Circular 3 Feb. 141/2 We have a very keen Dickensian on the staff.., who possesses not only unique knowledge of the subject, but has a fine collection of Dickensiana.

2015 M. Hammond Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Introd. 2 I draw gratefully on the work of..many Dickensians, media historians and literary and cultural theorists.

Derivatives

Diˈckensianly adv. in a Dickensian manner.

ΚΠ

1889 Punch 19 Jan. 25/2 Mr. Farjeon does not labour..to be Dickensianly funny, but is spontaneously and quietly humorous.

1994 New Republic 7 Feb. 28/3 Kiester has..retained Harry's [law] firm, the Dickensianly named Swyne & Dour.

2007 Harper's Mag. Sept. 26/2 A Dickensianly sprawling Antarctic thriller.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dickensian
释义	Dickensianadj.n. Brit. /dᵻˈkɛnzɪən/, U.S. /dəˈkɛnziən/ Etymology: < the name of Charles Dickens (1812–70), English novelist + -ian suffix. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to Charles Dickens; belonging to or created by Dickens. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer Lucianical1561 Xenophontean1593 Sidneian1599 Anastasian1621 Theophrastical1662 Menippean1693 Varronian1693 Herodotean1748 Shaftesburian1752 Cervantic1760 Alfredian1762 Swiftian1762 Richardsonian1763 Pepysian1765 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1769 Johnsonian1775 Radcliffian1801 Southeyan1817 Lucianic1820 Xenophontic1822 Thucydidean1826 Walter Scottish1827 Voltairean1833 Juvenalian1839 Dickens-like1841 Dickensian1842 Voltairish1842 Hazlittian1844 Theocritean1846 Dickensish1849 Ruskinian1850 Ruskinesque1854 Dickensy1855 Dickenesque1856 Macaulayesque1856 Ruskinite1856 Thackerayan1857 Ruskinese1863 Macaulayish1865 Walpolian1867 Dickensesque1868 Voltairianized1872 Baconian1874 Balzacian1874 Morrisian1879 Isidorian1882 Poe-like1882 Peacockian1886 Poe-esque1886 Zolaesque1886 Macaulayan1887 Bunyanesque1888 Fieldingesque1888 Junian1888 Meredithian1888 Tacitean1890 Hugoesque1893 Hardyesque1894 Kiplingesque1894 Shawian1894 Maeterlinckian1895 Dickinsonian1896 Stevensonian1897 Austenish1898 Austenian1901 Leverish1903 Pateresque1903 Trollopian1903 Malorian1904 Shavian1904 Brontesque1905 Chestertonian1905 Jamesian1905 Leveresque1905 Jacobean1906 Carrollese1907 Hardyan1907 Stendhalian1907 Turgenevian1908 Ouidaesque1909 Galsworthian1912 Poeish1915 Paterian1918 Sitwellian1920 Conradian1921 Mallarméan1924 Theophrastian1924 Wildean1924 Pirandellian1925 Proustian1925 Flaubertian1926 Wodehousian1926 Joycean1927 Stracheyan1927 Theophrastic1928 Yeatsian1928 Lawrentian1930 Firbankian1931 Melvillean1931 Leavisite1934 Runyonesque1934 Kafka1936 Woolfian1936 Twainian1938 Rilkean1939 Audenesque1940 Hemingwayesque1942 Brontëan1945 Kafkaesque1947 Leavisian1947 Morrisan1949 Orwellian1950 Faulknerian1951 Hemingwayan1951 Greeneian1952 Arnoldian1953 Thurberesque1954 Tolkienian1954 Beckettian1958 Hemingwayish1959 Nabokovian1959 Pinteresque1960 Pinterish1960 Vernean1960 Waughian1960 Bradleian1961 Gravesian1961 Kafkian1962 Jules Vernean1964 Snovian1966 Pinterian1967 Lucianesque1969 Tolkienesque1970 Thoreauvian1975 Stubbsian1979 1842 John Bull 3 Dec. 584/2 The appeal to their sympathies on behalf of the Dickensian abra [= lady's maid]. 1892 Spectator 16 Jan. 93/2 The quiet old city has..personal as well as literary Dickensian associations. 1980 R. B. Henkle Comedy & Culture iv. 154 Mr. Micawber, a celebrated Dickensian creation..is a man whose sphere for self-expression is circumscribed. 2012 V. Purton Dickens & Sentimental Trad. vi. 142 Hard Times is atypical in its uses of the sentimentalist tradition, as in so much else, which is why it is so often dealt with apart from the rest of the Dickensian oeuvre. 2. Resembling or characteristic of the writings, style, etc., of Charles Dickens, esp. with reference to the vivid descriptive passages, satirical observation of society, and humour and pathos contained in his work. ΚΠ 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 24 Nov. 4/4 The characters in this Comedy are singularly Dickensian. 1881 Athenæum 19 Mar. 390/3 He [sc. Bret Harte] has a touch of Dickens in his style..he observes with a Dickensian eye. 1908 Sphere 21 Mar. 16/3 Those flashes of Dickensian humour for which Mr. Pett Ridge has so happy a knack. 1951 Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner 7 Jan. 3/5 ‘Son of a Hundred Kings’ is a rich Dickensian tale of a boy trying to make his way in a Canadian town during the ‘Gay Nineties’. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 30/2 Covering 350 years of European musical history, Steen sketches his canonic figures with Dickensian flair. 3. Reminiscent of the places, situations, people, etc., portrayed in the novels of Charles Dickens; esp. (in later use) evocative of the poor social conditions in Victorian England described by Dickens. ΚΠ 1888 Liverpool Mercury 23 Nov. 5/4 It looks as though we were not to have a Dickensian Christmas, but one of a very dull type. 1902 E. C. B. Cook Highways & Byways in London (1903) xvii. 416 The very poor have always a certain rude, Dickensian, good nature. 1962 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/2 Fog as dense, if not as black, as anything that Dickensian London ever knew. 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xiv. 128 The offices were laughably Dickensian. 2004 Guardian (Nexis) 13 May (Home section) 6 Thousands of students across Britain are living in Dickensian conditions in damp rented housing..overrun with vermin. B. n. An admirer or student of Charles Dickens or his work. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer Tacitist1656 Johnsonian1778 Richardsonian1778 Miltonist1830 Voltairean1842 Dickensite1849 Shakespearolater1875 Cervantist1881 Rabelaisian1882 Dickensian1885 Peacockian1886 Zolaist1886 Meredithian1892 Hardyan1896 Janeite1896 Stevensonian1897 Kiplingite1898 Hazlittian1902 Austenite1903 Balzacian1905 Shavian1905 Boswellian1908 Jacobite1909 Thackerayan1909 Trollopian1910 Wellsian1916 Proustian1919 Sitwellian1920 Pirandellist1925 Thoreauvian1927 Walpolian1927 Austenian1928 Stendhalian1928 Poeist1929 Morrisite1936 Joycean1938 Wodehousian1939 Lucianist1940 Woolfian1944 Leavisite1946 Jamesian1954 Yeatsian1954 Leavisian1955 Lawrentian1957 Lawrentian1959 Beckettian1965 Orwellian1971 1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 1 Nov. 14/1 The true Dickensian regards this last point [sc. fidelity to nature] as ‘the root of the matter’. 1912 Publishers' Circular 3 Feb. 141/2 We have a very keen Dickensian on the staff.., who possesses not only unique knowledge of the subject, but has a fine collection of Dickensiana. 2015 M. Hammond Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Introd. 2 I draw gratefully on the work of..many Dickensians, media historians and literary and cultural theorists. Derivatives Diˈckensianly adv. in a Dickensian manner. ΚΠ 1889 Punch 19 Jan. 25/2 Mr. Farjeon does not labour..to be Dickensianly funny, but is spontaneously and quietly humorous. 1994 New Republic 7 Feb. 28/3 Kiester has..retained Harry's [law] firm, the Dickensianly named Swyne & Dour. 2007 Harper's Mag. Sept. 26/2 A Dickensianly sprawling Antarctic thriller. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1842
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