单词 | montaignesque |
释义 | Montaignesqueadj. Of or relating to Montaigne; having the characteristics of Montaigne's writings, esp. in being sceptical or questioning in tone and essayistic in style. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scepticism > [adjective] > of Montaignism Montaignish1831 Montaignesque1856 ephectic1883 Montaignian1957 1856 Q. Rev. Sept. 396 We have likened Montaignesque to Shakespearean criticism. 1917 J. Strahan Andrew Bruce Davidson iv. 65 One cannot but be struck by the curiously Montaignesque style. 1992 Atlantic Aug. 96/3 Montaignesque essays..tend to be, at the least, more lively, less stagey, than others. 1996 N. Baker Size of Thoughts 210 Hazlitt does not refer to the lumber of scholarship where you would expect him to, in his Montaignesque ‘On the Ignorance of the Learned’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1856 |
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