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单词 johnsonism
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Johnsonismn.

Brit. /ˈdʒɒnsn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑnsəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Johnson , -ism suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Samuel Johnson (see Johnsonian adj. and n.) + -ism suffix. Compare Johnsonianism n.
A phrase or expression characteristic of, or used by, Samuel Johnson; (also) style of language, speech, or writing characteristic of Johnson (see Johnsonian adj.). Cf. Johnsonianism n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
Marlowism1593
Rabelaism1803
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Boswellism1825
Swiftianism1826
Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
Rabelaisianism1886
Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > style of an author, period, or work > style of specific author
Darwinianism1804
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Ossianesque1821
Johnsonese1831
Darwinism1840
Carlylese1858
Macaulayese1859
Ruskinese1863
Ruskinesque1873
Hegelese1886
Kiplingese1899
Borrovian1900
Runyonese1937
1807 Ann. Rev. & Hist. of Lit. 1806 5 267 The pedantic preference shown in this instance to learned words threatens a new inundation of Johnsonisms.
1841 New World 6 Nov. 291/1 We do not mean to say that he [sc. Charles Anthon] is altogether without faults, but a certain antique Johnsonism of style is perhaps one of his worst.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 104/4 Mr. Sparrow's retort is: ‘The reviewer is wrong, and we have only to walk into a wood to prove it.’ This Johnsonism is on the right side of the case—the imaginative.
2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Sept. c13/2 One encounters all the famous Johnsonisms in Boswell's biography, from ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’..to ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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