tendenzn.

1896 A. W. Small Let. 22 May in Social Forces (1935) Mar. 337/2 Its connotations are to my mind necessarily with some ‘Tendenz’ which is exploited.

1951 A. L. Rowse Eng. of Elizabeth ix. 379 One sees the tendenz of this... Coke's view was extremely tendencious, but the tendenz was good: it was all in favour of the supremacy of law in the State and of the liberty of the subject.

1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 336 He argues that the type of Tendenz..which Engels would find acceptable is..‘identical with that “Party element” which materialism..encloses in itself’.

a1896 G. Du Maurier Martian (1897) 396 The elderly..virgins who knew nothing of life but what they had read..in ‘Tendenz’ novels.

1917 A. Waugh Loom of Youth 11 I was surprised to find that my young friend..had harnessed his views..to the philosophic poem and the tendenz novel of the latest phase of fictional evolution.

1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. July 294 ‘Constance Herbert’ is a Tendenz-roman; the characters and incidents are selected with a view to the enforcement of a principle.

1896 J. Jacobs Jewish Ideals & Other Ess. p. xii George Eliot's novels..were to us Tendenz-Romane, and we studied them as much for the Tendenz as for the Roman.

1975 Listener 18 Dec. 819/2 Oliver Twist..has suffered more than some of the others... Humphrey House, the eminent Dickens critic, said that it was the closest thing to a tendenzroman that Dickens ever wrote, and yet..very little of that political quality survives.