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- noun Alternative form of
pantagruelism .
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Examples
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So I perceive in them all one and the same specifical form, and the like individual properties, which our ancestors called Pantagruelism; by virtue whereof they will bear with anything that floweth from a good, free, and loyal heart.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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So I perceive in them all one and the same specifical form, and the like individual properties, which our ancestors called Pantagruelism; by virtue whereof they will bear with anything that floweth from a good, free, and loyal heart.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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So I perceive in them all one and the same specifical form, and the like individual properties, which our ancestors called Pantagruelism; by virtue whereof they will bear with anything that floweth from a good, free, and loyal heart.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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He was superb in vegetable Pantagruelism, with his cravat taken off, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his fruit-knife in hand, laughing, drinking water, carving into the pulp of a doyenne pear.
Balzac 2003
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For my part, I am thereabouts, thanks to his blessed goodness; and by the means of a little Pantagruelism (which you know is a certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune), you see me now hale and cheery, as sound as a bell, and ready to drink, if you will.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For my part, I am thereabouts, thanks to his blessed goodness; and by the means of a little Pantagruelism (which you know is a certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune), you see me now hale and cheery, as sound as a bell, and ready to drink, if you will.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was superb in vegetable Pantagruelism, with his cravat taken off, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his fruit-knife in hand, laughing, drinking water, carving into the pulp of a doyenne pear.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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By the means of a little Pantagruelism (which, you know, is _a certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune_), you see me now [ "at near seventy years of age," his translator says], hale and cheery, as sound as a bell, and ready to drink, if you will.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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He was superb in vegetable Pantagruelism, with his cravat taken off, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his fruit-knife in hand, laughing, drinking water, carving into the pulp of a doyenne pear.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
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In one of them Rabelais was born, and found Quintessence, and of that finding -- more fortunate than the result of True Thomas finding the Elf Queen -- was born Pantagruelism.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Through his Christ-like hero Pantagruel, he promoted a concept he called Pantagruelism, a form of Christian charity.
Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies Dorinda Evans 2023
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