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Byronic
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English
Etymology
From en Byron ic.
Pronunciation
en /baɪˈɹɒn.ɪk/ UK
en /ˈbaɪrənɪk/ nonstandard
en ɒnɪk 3
Adjective
Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) or his writings.
en Byronesque Byronian Byronish
en 1877 w:Henry Kendall Ode to a Black Gin The Australian Town and Country Journal 24 You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.
en 10 March 1931 Helen Herman A-muse-ings https://web.archive.org/web/20260102023313/https://cdn.visualthesaurus.com/articles/wordroutes/tracking-down-the-roots-of-a-super-word/supercal31.jpg?v=h1eg028w Syracuse Daily Orange Syracuse, N.Y. The Daily Orange Corporation [for the students of Syracuse University] 849666486 This 34 letter word en supercalifragilisticexpialidocious supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus is not to be found in the dictionary. Perhaps that is because Noah Webster couldn’t take time off from Byronic English themes to think up such a conglammeration.
Derived terms
en Byronic hero Byronic heroine Byronically
Related terms
en Byronism
Translations
French: fr byronien
Polish: pl bajroniczny, pl bajronowski, pl bajroński
en eponyms