Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, resembling, or relating to Samuel Johnson or his writings.
- noun An admirer or a student of Samuel Johnson or his work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or characteristic of Dr. Samuel Johnson, his writings (especially his English dictionary), or his style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and
lexicographer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I said "Johnsonian" -- yet even in the great Doctor as we have him recorded there were a certain truculence and vehemence that are a little foreign to B---- 's habit.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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N+1 apes the old style of worthy Jewish intellectuals, alongside the old style of worthy Cyril-Connolly-style balanced intellectual survey—of the sort that recalls the Johnsonian pleonasm which opens “The Vanity of Human Wishes”—which treats all the artistic developments of all the separate countries of Europe as though they were worthy of serious consideration.
WHY WE LOVE TLS (UPDATED) TEV 2005
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Goldsmith has a lightness and delicate ease which belongs rather to the school of the earlier eighteenth century than to his own day; the enthusiasm of Addison for French literature which he retained gave him a more graceful model than the "Johnsonian" school, to which he professed himself to belong, could afford.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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The Black Codes, which were adopted by the legislatures first convened under what has gone into history as the "Johnsonian" plan of reconstruction, were models of ingenious subterfuge.
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Codes, which were adopted by the legislatures first convened under what has gone into history as the "Johnsonian" plan of reconstruction, were models of ingenious subterfuge.
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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The English that she is known for is this polished, printed Johnsonian prose.
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The English that she is known for is this polished, printed Johnsonian prose.
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The English that she is known for is this polished, printed Johnsonian prose.
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The English that she is known for is this polished, printed Johnsonian prose.
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The English that she is known for is this polished, printed Johnsonian prose.
neilturn commented on the word Johnsonian
For more Johnsonian comments, frindley pointed out the Johnson blog from Yale library which reached Z a long time ago. But also see Brandi Besalki's excellent Johnson Dictionary Online
August 31, 2021