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Eutopia|juːˈtəʊpɪə|
[f. Gr. εὐ- (see eu-) + τόπος place. First used by Sir T. More or his friend Peter Giles (see quot. 1516), with a play on Utopia (f. Gr. οὐ τόπος, and hence = ‘no place, land of nowhere’), the name of the imaginary country described in More's famous book with that title. Some later writers have misused the word for Utopia, imagining the latter to be an incorrect spelling; others have correctly used the two words in an antithesis.]
A region of ideal happiness or good order.
[1516Sir T. More or P. Giles Hexastichon Anemolii Poete Laureati, prefixed to Utopia, Vtopia priscis dicta ob infrequentiam, Nunc ciuitatis æmula Platonicæ..Eutopia merito sum vocanda nomine.] 1556R. Robinson tr. Hexastichon in More's Utopia (ed. 2) S vij a, Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely My name is Eutopie, a place of felicitie. 1595Sidney Apol. (1891) 19 Sir Thomas Moore's Eutopia. 1610Th. Th[orpe] Ded. Healey's St. Augustine's City of God, Then [when Healey translated Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem, he treated] of a deuised Country scarse on earth, now of a desired Citie sure in heauen; then of Vtopia, now of Eutopia. a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 255 Certain edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia. 1638Featley Strict. Lyndom. ii. 23 No more..than it will prove there is a Commonwealth in Eutopia. |