| 单词 |
Emersonian |
| 释义 |
Emersonian, a. and n.|ɛməˈsəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of the American author Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Emerson or his writings.
B. n. An admirer or follower of Emerson. Hence Emerˈsonianism.
1848A. H. Clough Let. 16 July (1957) I. 216 He is much less Emersonian than his Essays. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago III. i. 34, I almost think those Emersonians are right, when they crave the ‘life of plants, and stones, and rain’. 1870Gentl. Mag. July 160 He ‘planted himself’, in Emersonian language, ‘upon his instincts’. 1884J. Hawthorne in N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 166 To be Emersonian is to be American. 1888Athenæum 24 Mar. 372/2 In later life he [sc. A. B. Alcott] went about the American cities as a peripatetic philosopher, displaying in ‘conversations’ the Emersonian jewels and Transcendental wares. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. ii. 31 Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. 1918Hist. Amer. Lit. I. 352 The volatile and heady liquid known as Emersonianism. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 1022/3 Allowing to the individual an Emersonian freedom to himself. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vi. 291 There were extravagant Emersonians in white socks. |
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