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Byronist

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Etymology

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From Byron +‎ -ist.

Noun

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Byronist (plural Byronists)

  1. A proponent of Byronism.
    • 1997 July 20, Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Writer's Diary Volume 2: 1877-1881, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 1253:
      Lermontov, of course, was a Byronist, but his great , original poetic power made him a Byronist of a particular kind - a kind of mocking, capricious, and fastidious Byronist, eternally disbelieving even in his own inspiration and []
    • 2010 October 18, Susan J. Wolfson, Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action, JHU Press, →ISBN:
      But her reactions to Lord Byron, riven beyond ambivalence, are a primer of the female-Byronist dilemma. Not given to Jewsbury's dry distance, “Mrs. Hemans” was a consummate Byronist. In public displays of affection, she echoed his []
    • 1893, Henry Parry Liddon, Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Doctor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church; Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford, page 42:
      Again : ' The Byronist, though encircled by the purest air, with the golden sun, full of joy and pleasure, gleaming in the bright blue sky, will fix his eye on any speck of mist which he sees crouching near the horizon, and gaze []
    • 2010, Sheila A. Spector, Spector Sheila, Byron and the Jews, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
      There were three Byronists in the early pre-Balfour period. Solomon Mandelkern, a transitional figure whose initial maskilic beliefs were dashed by the pogroms of 1880-81 , produced a bilingual translation of the Hebrew Melodies []

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