Macaulayesque

English Etymology From en Macaulay -esque. Adjective ? Characteristic of Thomas Babington Macaulay. en 1869 Arthur Hugh Clough The Poems and Prose Remains: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir 226 I have only detected one error myself, but it is a very Macaulayesque one . He speaks of 'the oaks of Magdalen:' they are elms. There was no occasion to say anything but trees, but the temptation to say something particular was too strong. It makes one distrust all his descriptions, and en 2015-12-08 George Levine Boundaries of Fiction Princeton University Press 9781400876808 143 Here again is the heroic figure, here again are the Macaulayesque paradoxes and the noisy but lucid style. Instead of a simple narration of what happens, Macaulay begins with a summary statement under which all that occurs through the length of two impressive and exciting chapters is noted