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Dickensian, a. and n.|dɪˈkɛnzɪən|
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the English novelist Charles Dickens (d. 1870), or his style; marked by conditions or features resembling those described by Dickens.
1881Athenæum 19 Mar. 390/3 He [Bret Harte] has a touch of Dickens in his style..he observes with a Dickensian eye. 1892Spectator 16 Jan. 93/2 The quiet old city has, of course, personal as well as literary Dickensian associations. 1928Daily Express 16 Apr. 10/2 It makes foreigners wonder whether the comfort and the good fare of the old Dickensian type of inn were purely mythical. 1955Times 11 May 6/7 It..has reverted to the Dickensian standard of longer hours, less pay, and poorer conditions. 1962Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/2 Fog as dense, if not as black, as anything that Dickensian London ever knew.
B. n. An admirer or student of Dickens or his works.
1903Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 2/3 A keen Dickensian like Mr. Pett Ridge. 1905(title) The Dickensian, a magazine for Dickens lovers. 1964English Studies XLV. 336 Dickensians will find it of interest.
So Dickenˈsesque (Dickenesque), ˈDickensish, ˈDickensy (Dickeny), adjs.; ˈDickensite = Dickensian n. Also Dickensiˈana (see ana suffix). (All more or less nonce-wds.)
1856Sat. Rev. II. 196/1 A Dickenesque description of an execution. 1859Mrs. Gaskell Let. 9 Mar. (1966) 538 My story..is fated to go to this new Dickensy periodical. 1880Athenæum 25 Sept. 399/2 The Dickenesque portion..is poor beside its prototype. 1885Ibid. 17 Oct. 503 His is a Dickensesque manner, but he has not the local knowledge nor humour of his master. 1886Century Mag. XXXII. 937 My ideas of London were ..preeminently Dickeny. 1886F. G. Kitton (title) Dickensiana, a bibliography of the literature relating to Charles Dickens and his writings. 1888A. Lang in Good Words Apr. 233/1 One is a Dickensite pure and simple. 1890Spectator 30 Aug. 281 Disraeli never descended even into Dickensish depths of human nature. 1892K. D. Wiggin in Atlantic Monthly May 616 It would be so delightful and Dickensy to talk..with a licensed victualer by the name of Martha Huggins. 1905Daily Chron. 12 July 4/7 A correspondent..assures us that he is..a Dickensite. 1949D. G. Smith I capture Castle vi. 75, I had hoped the lawyers' office would be old and dark, with a Dickensy old lawyer. 1958Listener 18 Dec. 1046/1 There may soon be a special department in public libraries devoted to Dickensiana. |