单词 | walpolian |
释义 | Walpolianadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Horace Walpole or his writings. Also applied to neo-Gothic architecture of a type popularized by Horace Walpole. 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 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > style of specific English architects Wrenean1813 Wyatt1819 Soanean1842 Wrenian1853 Puginian1933 Wyattesque1942 Walpolian1944 Soanesque1945 Wyattish1946 Soanic1948 1867 H. E. H. Jerningham Life in French Château vi. 165 She had seen through the empty-heartedness and true Walpolian sense of gratitude of those she had befriended. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xl. 146 A tendency to talk Walpolean scandal about foreign courts was particularly manifest. 1944 J. Lees-Milne Diary 2 June in Prophesying Peace (1977) 71 I was fascinated by the Walpolian Gothick chapel. 1973 Country Life 14 June 1726/1 The greatest Walpolian scholar, W. S. Lewis, remarked in 1934 that Strawberry Hill was ‘assembled rather than built’. 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Robert Walpole or his political career. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [adjective] > relating to or supporting specific politician Pittite1770 Palmerstonian1846 Peelite1846 Cobdenic1853 Gladstonian1861 Parnellite1882 Churchillian1883 Chamberlainic1885 Chamberlainite1885 Cobdenite1887 Cobdenitish1905 Winstonian1905 Lloyd-Georgian1909 Walpolian1909 Asquithian1910 Churchillian1912 MacDonaldite1938 Bevanite1951 Butskellist1956 Butskellite1956 Mosleyite1960 Wilsonian1963 Wilsonite1963 Powellite1965 Powellist1968 Bennite1975 Thatcherite1977 Thatcheresque1979 Majorite1990 Blairite1993 1909 J. M. Rigg in Cambr. Mod. Hist. VI. xiii. 424 He adhered to the Walpolean tradition of an entente cordiale with France. 1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 76/1 His appeal..to ‘custom and reason’, ‘the practice of former times’, and ‘the original principles of government’ could be used equally against American radicals and Walpolian oligarchs. 1983 Notes & Queries Feb. 23/1 More substance still is given to his role as a Walpolean hack. B. n. An admirer of Horace Walpole. 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 1927 Observer 24 Apr. 6/2 No Walpolian can be satisfied with anything less than the complete Toynbee edition of the Letters. Derivatives Walpoliˈana n. (also Walpoleˈana) (see -ana suffix). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary particulars of a writer > things connected with specific writer Johnsoniana1765 Walpoliana1799 Dickensiana1842 Southeyana1847 Ruskiniana1878 Pepysiana1899 Brontëana1900 Poeana1904 Thackerayana1905 Proustiana1923 Carrolliana1924 Shaviana1927 Lawrenciana1948 1799 (title) Walpoliana. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 785/2 Of the examples England has produced of this species of composition, perhaps the most interesting is the Walpoliana, a transcript of the literary conversation of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 136/4 If General Conway's house, grounds, and..views..are over-praised, they are only the more authentic as Walpoliana. 1959 Times 16 May 8/5 There will be many on this side of the Atlantic who will be deeply grieved by the news of the death of Annie Burr, wife of Wilmarth Sheldon (‘Lefty’) Lewis, the eminent collector and editor of Walpoliana. 1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 161/2 Dr. Lewis's collector's flair and comfortable means enabled him to build up an unrivalled assemblage of Walpoleana—original Walpole letters and manuscripts, and books from Walpole's own library. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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