Walpolianadj.n.
/wɔːlˈpəʊlɪən/ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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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