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Byronic, a.|baɪˈrɒnɪk|
[f. the name of the poet Lord Byron; see -ic, and cf. Miltonic.]
1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. Also absol.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 511 His Byronic muse procured for him the hand of one of our fair countrywomen. 1830Diary of Nun II. 35 A Byronic contempt for our fellow creatures. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. VI. 228 A Byronic youth in a turn-down collar. 1875Masson Wordsw., &c. 35 The Byronic in poetry is, in some respects, the contradictory of the Wordsworthian. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 83 No sentimental passion..no Byronic mock heroics.
2. quasi-n. pl. [after philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron.
1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. II. 394 Vociferating impotent Byronics against conventional morality. |