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Robinson Crusoe|ˈrɒbɪnsən ˈkruːsəʊ|
The name of the eponymous hero of Daniel Defoe's fictional narrative (1719), who survives shipwreck on a desert island, used allusively. Also attrib. and (rare) ellipt. as Robinson. Cf. Crusoe2. So ˈRobinson ˈCrusoe v. trans., to maroon on a desert island; ˈRobinson ˈCrusoic a.
1768London Mag. Oct. 543/1, I am of late from a sprightly fellow become a peevish mal-content; and am as unhappy among the people of England, as if some misadventure had Robinson-crusoed me, by throwing me into a desert-isle..where I could have nothing but seals and wild goats for my companions. 1849L. Hunt Bk. for Corner I. 14 There are Robinson Crusoes in the moral as well as physical world..;—men, cast on desert islands of thought and speculation; without companionship; without worldly resources; forced to arm and clothe themselves out of the remains of shipwrecked hopes, and to make a home for their solitary hearts in the nooks and corners of imagination and reading. 1856E. K. Kane Arctic Explorations I. xxvi. 348 A host of expedients were to be resorted to, and much Robinson Crusoe labor ahead. 1878Trollope How ‘Mastiffs’ went to Iceland ii. 6 Though the life of a Robinson Crusoe or a few Robinson Crusoes may be very picturesque, humanity will always desire to restore a Robinson Crusoe back to the community of the world. 1919G. B. Shaw Matter with Ireland (1962) 213 His Robinson Crusoic independence of his neighbors. 1930R. Campbell Adamastor 30 Of all the ocean-gods and mages The last surviving Robinson. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry W. B. Yeats x. 218 Eliot..in After Strange Gods has grouped Lawrence and Yeats..as writers who have suffered from the lack of an established religion and a traditional moral code and who have invented for these things Robinson Crusoe substitutes. 1974H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World iv. 53 The army compound..had a Robinson Crusoe atmosphere with the palm and pau pau trees. 1979‘G. Black’ Night Run from Java viii. 76 One [island] where I could Robinson Crusoe the marine accident victims. |