Shavianadj.n.

1904 Times 2 Nov. 6/2 Not a play but a thoroughly characteristic ‘Shavian’ farago.

1908 New Age 26 Sept. 438/1 It was a little odd to suddenly get this kind of Shavian spicing at the end.

1923 Westm. Gaz. 3 July A comedy, Shavian in character, occupied the attention of the Commons for half an hour.

1935 G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw 292 The Shavian evolutionist does really want to cast the whole body of man into Chaos.

1960 C. S. Lewis Four Loves v. 125 A theory [of the love of lovers] more likely to be accepted in our own day is what we may call Shavian—Shaw himself might have said ‘metabiological’—Romanticism. According to Shavian Romanticism the voice of Eros is the voice of the élan vital or Life Force.

1977 M. T. Bloom 13th Man vi. 101 Your mother..named you for a Shavian heroine and..you've turned into one.

1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 10 Feb. (1972) II. 512 Though he is an admirer of Shaw, he is no Shavian.

1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 18 Feb. (1972) II. 515 Are you going to write a natural history, like a true Shavian?

1907 Archd. Cunningham in Official Rep. Ch. Congr. 3 Oct. 310 The Fabians and the Shavians.

1921 Spectator 28 May 680/2 The poet Eugene Marchbanks is perhaps as near to primary emotion as any Shavian.

1967 O. Lancaster With Eye to Future i. 8 My mother..always remained a devoted Shavian.

1978 P. Boardman Worlds of Patrick Geddes xi. 405 P. G. uses modern socialism as his next example... He names Marx..the Fabians..and the Shavians with income-equalisations.

1927 Observer 12 June 15/1 It [sc. a foreword to a volume of plays] will be prized by collectors of Shaviana for its friendly and human qualities.

1958 Sunday Times 27 Apr. 8/2 This slender item of Shaviana.

1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Jan. (1972) II. 496 The dawning of Ibsenism & Nietzscheanism & ‘Shavianism’ seemed to him the coming of chaos.

1928 Observer 18 Mar. 16/3 The Quintessence of Shavianism.

1928 Sunday Express 3 June 11 A Sheaf of Shavianisms.

1975 Listener 14 Aug. 218/4 A revival of Shavianism.

1927 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 2 The Shavianismus tickled him enormously; and he was never tired of quoting..my jokes.

1920 G. B. Shaw Shaw on Theatre (1958) 133 The younger generation, Shavians to a man, demonstrated their Shavianity by scoffing at me as a Back Number.

1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 2 Sept. (1972) II. 357 Your theme..is that the book is a mere rechauffée of stale Shavianized Nietzsche.