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Creonic
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English
Alternative forms
Creonian
Etymology
From en Creon ic.
Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.
en 1995 The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Andrew Cutrofello 2 0791425843 For so long as the judging consciousness refuses to recognize his own evil, he remains stubbornly Creonic.
en 2001 The Fragility of Goodness Martha C. Nussbaum 0521794722 Only the person who balances self-protection with yielding in this way can be either a lover or a friend: for the completely passive victim cannot act to help another, and the Creonic agent cannot see otherness.
en 2012 Tragedy and International Relations T. Erskine; R. Lebow 0230390331 Indeed, seeing the world oppositionally is 'Creonic', by which I mean it is part of his strategy of ordering the world into 'with me or against me', impugning the motives of anyone who disagrees with him and insisting on his sanity as opposed to the insanity of Antigone.
en 2012 Beyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy Zachariah Rush 27 0786491078 Creaon has expressly commanded that Polyneices not be given a burial, but his sister Antigone knows that the gods require such evidence of piety and the Sophoclean drama is born from this conflict between Antigonean spirituality and Creonic secularity.
Anagrams
en cceinor cornice crocein