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- adjective Of or pertaining to Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), 19th-century
Norwegian playwright ,theatre director , andpoet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stingers; but as outspoken as they are true, and just in all their dealings with this Ibsenian craze.
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I should, perhaps, explain that this is equivalent to an Ibsenian proposal.
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It's the pigstol -- that fatal Norwegian weapon which, in Ibsenian dramas, _never_ shoots straight!
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-- _T.e Woman_, always well informed, tells us on February 26, that, "owing to numerous applications," Mr. C.T. GREIN is negotiating for the Royalty T.eatre, in order to give another Ibsenian performance.
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I have a son who loathes me, and who is either an Ibsenian satire on the Master's own ideals, or else an utterly impossible prig -- I don't know or care which.
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Norway is the home of the Ibsenian or stodgy, as distinguished from the stagey, Drama.
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Ibsenian shadows of heredity, but real live ghosts, handsomely appointed, with chains and groans and wavy wardrobes.
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