Definitions

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  • adjective Of a form of bitter misanthropy relating to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
  • adjective Of or relating to the French Catholic Sacred Heart congregation founded by Joseph-Marie Timon-David.
  • noun A member of the French Catholic Sacred Heart congregation founded by Joseph-Marie Timon-David.
  • adjective Of or relating to Skeptic philosopher Timon of Phlius, his life, works, style, or ideas.

Etymologies

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Timon +‎ -an, from a 3rd-century BC disciple of Pyrrho, Skeptic philosopher and satirist Timon of Phlius (c. 320 – c. 230 BC).

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Timon +‎ -ian, from the 5th-century BC person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by poet John Langhorne in his translation of Plutarch's Lives (1777).

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From the name of French priest Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1823-1891) and the Sacred Heart congregation he founded in 1864.

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Examples

  • The most prosperous enterprise of Alcibiades, in the Timonian sense, was the inciting the Athenians to undertake an expedition against the Dorian city of Syracuse, in Sicily.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • Miso, one of the seven sages, of a Timonian and Democritic humour, being asked, "what he laughed at, being alone?"

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 16 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Miso, one of the seven sages, of a Timonian and Democritic humour, being asked, "what he laughed at, being alone?"

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • They’re both here in Alexandria, waiting for you to come out of your Timonian shell.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • They’re both here in Alexandria, waiting for you to come out of your Timonian shell.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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