Havishamesque

Havisham-esque English 2021 October 2 Etymology thumb|An illustration of Miss Havisham by Harry Furniss from a 1910 edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (originally published 1860–1861). The word Havishamesque is derived from this character in the novel. From en Havisham esque suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives, after the character Miss Havisham from the novel Great Expectations (1860–1861) by the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870), a wealthy spinster once jilted at the altar, who lives in a ruined mansion and always wears her wedding dress. Pronunciation en /ˌhævɪʃəmˈɛsk/ RP,GA en En-us-Havishamesque.oga GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Havishamesque.wav Southern England en ɛsk 4 en Ha vi sham esque Adjective Stuck in the past; also, refusing to accept change or failure. en fossilized Miss Havishamesque Thesaurus:obsolete en Julie Michaels; Susan Zesiger Guaranteed Listings w:Daniel Okrent w:New England Monthly Haydenville, Mass. New England Monthly October 1987 4 10 97 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-england-monthly_1987-10_4_10/page/n99/mode/1up 2 8750-216X 10782770 Unlike most historic sites, which tend to ossify into Havishamesque stillness, Chesterwood, the turn-of-the-century home of popular academic sculptor Daniel Chester French, welcomes the fresh breezes of life. en Mary Ann Kelly 11 Park Lane South, Queens A Thomas Dunne Book New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press 1990 177 https://archive.org/details/parklanesouthque00kell/page/n186/mode/1up 978-0-312-03907-3 Iris went away to boil water or something, and Claire had time to investigate the shabby finery of the room. It was sad if you looked at it one way, almost Havishamesque. en w:Martin Filler Shingle Stylish Louis Oliver Gropp w:House Beautiful New York, N.Y. Hearst Corporation July 1994 136 7 103 https://archive.org/details/housebeautiful136julnewy/page/n109/mode/1up 2 0018-6422 506127761 In vitrines throughout the house are several of the couple's collections—Dick [Cavett]'s Native American artifacts, Carrie [Nye]'s seashells, and one Havishamesque glass-topped table preserving a robin's nest with eggs, her ballet teacher's toe shoes, her grandmother's silk wedding slippers, and a copy of [Rudyard] Kipling's Recessional that belonged to Tennessee Williams's mother and was inscribed by him to Carrie. en Matthew Crow My Dearest Jonah large print Anstey, Leicestershire Ulverscroft, F. A. Thorpe (Publishing) 2012 2014 90–91 https://archive.org/details/mydearestjonah0000crow/page/90/mode/1up 978-1-4448-2070-6 Her husband died three years into their nuptials and she has sat ever since, sour and Havishamesque, waiting on that porch. Waiting for what I do not know: for his return from the great beyond, I suppose, or perhaps for her own demise, and their ensuing reunion. en w:Simon Doonan Lipstick on Your Kneecaps https://books.google.com/books?id=y0uXtADWKbEC&pg=PT13 The Asylum: A Collage of Couture Reminiscences … and Hysteria New York, N.Y. Blue Rider Press, Penguin Group 2013 978-1-101-59421-6 When she told me she hadn't seen it [the film Grey Gardens (1975)], I launched into an enthusiastic gush about this legendary seventies Maysles brothers documentary about a mother and daughter who lived in Havisham-esque decay in East Hampton. en Cory Ingram 7 Paradise [Calgary, Alta.] Ganymede Press 2018 86–87 https://books.google.com/books?id=sXmIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 978-1-9994715-0-7 On some level Chris felt sorry for abandoning Arthur; however, in Chris's mind, that still didn't justify the dramatics of it all—the maudlin, Havishamesque world he'd been dragged into because of a single mistake. Alternative forms en Havisham-esque Translations stuck in the past, refusing to accept change or failure Further reading Miss Havisham en eponyms terms derived from Dickensian works