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Sidneian, a.|ˈsɪdnɪən, sɪdˈniːən|
Also 7 Sydnæan, Sydnian; Sidneyan.
[f. the name of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86), English statesman and man of letters, + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the life and works of Sidney.
c1610Chapman Sonnet [to the Earl of Montgomery] in Homer Prince of Poets sig. Ee3v, There runs a blood, faire Earle, through your cleare vains,..Which still the liuing Sydnian soule maintaines. 1646Crashaw Steps to Temple 137 Sydnæan showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can Crowne old Winters head with flowers.
1931E. Blunden in Mind's Eye (1934) i. 53 It was Sidneian virtue in our colonel to invite even F. into the log cabin for a drink and a tune. 1952D. Davie Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse App. B. 199 The ‘sprezzatura’ of Castiglione and the Sidneyan ideal. 1965K. Graham Eng. Criticism of Novel ii. 39 Hardy's..eventual abandonment of the novel for poetry can perhaps be foreseen in the high, Sidneyan aims he set for it. |