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Ruskin4|ˈrʌskɪn| The surname of John Ruskin (1819–1900), distinguished as a writer on art and social subjects, used attrib. in Ruskin linen, a kind of hand-woven linen produced near Keswick in Cumbria; Ruskin ware, a kind of pottery with leadless glaze produced at Birmingham; Ruskin work = Ruskin linen. Also the base of various nouns, adjs., etc., as ˈRuskinade, a discourse in Ruskin's manner; Ruskiˈnese n., the language or style of Ruskin; a., = next; Ruskiˈnesque a., characteristic of Ruskin; n., the style of art or architecture favoured by Ruskin; Ruˈskinian a., = prec. a.; n., a follower of Ruskin; Ruskiniˈana, memorabilia of Ruskin; Ruˈskinianly adv., in a Ruskinian manner; ˈRuskinish a., suggestive of Ruskin; ˈRuskinism, the principles of Ruskin; ˈRuskinist = ruskinian n.; ˈRuskinite n. and a. = ruskinian n. and a.; ˈRuskinize v., trans. to bring to views like those of Ruskin; intr. to advocate or adopt Ruskinian principles; ˈRuskiny a., designating the style admired by Ruskin.
1865Sat. Rev. 30 Dec. 820 For the purpose of delivering hortatory *Ruskinades, in the fashion of the nineteenth century.
1863G. M. Hopkins Let. 10 July (1938) 55, I..hope you will approve some of the sketches in a *Ruskinese point of view. 1863Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 67/2 ‘Laying by’, therefore, in Ruskinese, can only mean simple hoarding. 1869Times 11 June 4/2 Some..will be formally incorporated into the language.., while others may remain emblems of Ruskinese and Carlylism. 1884Spectator 23 Aug. 1093/2 Almost with a Ruskinese eloquence and discrimination. 1933Scrutiny II. 1/2 Almost every page is littered with clichés, floating in Ruskinese, and quotations from Horace are liberally applied.
1853R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art (1862) 339 The true *Ruskinesque style of criticism. 1873Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life (1895) II. 76 One would welcome a bit of Ruskinesque in the dull modern streets of Rome.
1876Grosart Wks. A. Wilson II. Pref. p. xxv, A *Ruskinian denunciation of falsehood and sham. 1876Ruskin St. Mark's Rest xi. §209 So that no true disciple of mine will ever be a ‘Ruskinian’!
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 492/2 Every scrap of *Ruskiniana is now scattered to all quarters. 1978Lancashire Life July 50/4 It was the Severns' ill-luck to preside over the gradual running-down of Brantwood after 1918, a process completed after Arthur's death in 1931, in his ninetieth year, by the sale of household effects and Ruskiniana.
1974Sherwood & Pevsner Buildings of England: Oxfordshire 325 Capitals of the French Early Gothic foliage type but also *Ruskinianly naturalistic.
1884Bookseller 6 Nov. 1187/2 There is a *Ruskinish colouring about her style.
1851‘An Architect’ Something on Ruskinism p. iv, These few pages do not pretend to exhibit a portraiture of *Ruskinism, or anything like one. 1853R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art (1862) 336 If he be not previously inoculated with Ruskinism. 1940E. Gill Autobiogr. vii. 277 Anything that looks like Ruskinism in my subsequent development is chiefly due to the fact that we both accepted the same first principles.
1969Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 15/4 For long there have been a few devoted *Ruskinists in this country and America.
1889St. James's Gaz. 31 July 9/1 (heading) The travels of a *Ruskinite's letter. 1899G. B. Shaw Let. 17 Oct. (1972) II. 113 On the whole, the wooden figures [in the Alhambra], which classical & Ruskinite tourists alike disdain, are the things best worth looking at. 1975Maclean's Mag. May (B.C. Suppl.) 6 As far back as 1890, a utopian community of Ruskinites had set up shop in the Fraser Valley.
1880Athenæum 18 Dec. 808/1 If we are so minded we may *Ruskinize ourselves in all seriousness. 1882Ibid. 1 Apr. 82 Mr. Ruskin has not Ruskinized in vain. 1892Pall Mall G. 12 Oct. 5/2 It is made of home-spun ‘*Ruskin’ flax linen.
1963Bookseller 20 July 248/1 It was Ruskin who introduced linen cut-work to England and it is sometimes called *Ruskin work, but..the proper name [is]..Linen Cut-Work.
1977M. Green Children of Sun (rev. ed.) iii. 135 Harold [Acton] liked the Brighton Pavilion, but not the grey Gothicism, nor the *Ruskiny ruins. |