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Dantean, a.|ˈdæntiːən|
[See -an.]
Of or relating to Dante or his writings; resembling Dante's style or descriptions. Also n. A student or admirer of Dante.
1785A. Seward Let. 25 Aug. (1811) I. 77 The Dantean Angel of Vengeance is diabolically insatiable. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circ. i. (1874) 20 Among our Danteans. 1872C. King Mountain Sierra Nev. ix. 193 It was no small satisfaction to climb out of this Dantean gulf. 1879J. Cook Marriage 93, I do not adopt the Dantean view of the state of the lost in another life.
So Danteiˈana [see -ana]; ˈDanteish a. = Dantean a.; Danˈtescan a. = Dantean a.; Dantesque a. [see -esque] = prec.; ˈDantism, the branch of study concerned with the works and life of Dante; ˈDantist, a Dante scholar; ˈDantize v., to imitate the style of Dante; Danˈtologist, one versed in Dantology; Danˈtology = Dantism; Danˈtophilist, an admirer of Dante.
1764Acct. of Bks. in Ann. Reg. 272/2 Michael Angelo..is not ashamed, in some of his compositions, to dantize. 1813J. Forsyth Remarks Excursion Italy 66 Style..speckled even to affectation with Dantesque terms. 1833Edin. Rev. LVII. 417 A poem thoroughly Dantesque. 1834Q. Rev. LI. 23 Mr. Wright's double triplets..sound to our ears as little like the Dantescan harmony as Cary's blank verse. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. xi, ‘Too insipid’, said the Princess. ‘I wish that life were a little more Dantesque.’ 1872Lowell Dante Prose Wks. IV. 147 The veneration of Dantophilists for their master is that of disciples for their saint. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 291/2 Dantescan commentators and scholars. 1889W. W. Vernon Readings on Dante's Purg. I. Pref., One of the greatest Dantists of his time—the late Duke of Sermoneta. 1903Daily Chron. 7 Jan. 3/3 This..branch of Dantology. 1910N. & Q. 30 July 83 It is as yet little known to Dantologists. 1922Glasgow Herald 23 Nov. 3 Since Witte's day Dantism has developed into something like an exact science. 1924Blackw. Mag. 7 Jan. 24/1 A Danteish spot..had one redeeming feature. 1924H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match v. 126 He moved away with a look of deep dejection upon his Dantesque face. 1936N. & Q. CLXXI. 172/2 (heading) Danteiana. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 548/3 There has been a remarkable flowering of Dantology under such scholars as Pézard, Gilson, [etc.]. |