Danteanadj.
/ˈdantiːən/ Of or relating to Dante or his writings; resembling Dante's style or descriptions. Also n. A student or admirer of Dante.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific Italian poets
Petrarchian?1633
Dantean1785
Petrarchal1800
Petrarchesque1806
Dantesque1813
Petrarchan1827
Dantescan1834
Leopardian1881
Danteish1924
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > one who studies or follows other specific poets
Virgilian1577
Maronist1597
Coleridgian1840
Dantean1861
Chaucerian1868
1785 A. Seward Let. 25 Aug. (1811) I. 77 The Dantean Angel of Vengeance is diabolically insatiable.
1861 D. G. Rossetti Early Ital. Poets ii. 212 Among our Danteans.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada ix. 193 It was no small satisfaction to climb out of this Dantean gulf.
1879 J. Cook Marriage 93 I do not adopt the Dantean view of the state of the lost in another life.
Derivatives
Danteiˈana n. [see -ana suffix]
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1936 Notes & Queries 171 172/2 (heading) Danteiana.
ˈDanteish adj. = Dantean adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific Italian poets
Petrarchian?1633
Dantean1785
Petrarchal1800
Petrarchesque1806
Dantesque1813
Petrarchan1827
Dantescan1834
Leopardian1881
Danteish1924
1924 Blackwood's Mag. 7 Jan. 24/1 A Danteish spot..had one redeeming feature.
Danˈtescan adj. = Dantean adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific Italian poets
Petrarchian?1633
Dantean1785
Petrarchal1800
Petrarchesque1806
Dantesque1813
Petrarchan1827
Dantescan1834
Leopardian1881
Danteish1924
1834 Q. Rev. 51 23 Mr. Wright's double triplets..sound to our ears as little like the Dantescan harmony as Cary's blank verse.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 291/2 Dantescan commentators and scholars.
Dantesque adj. [see -esque suffix] = Dantescan adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific Italian poets
Petrarchian?1633
Dantean1785
Petrarchal1800
Petrarchesque1806
Dantesque1813
Petrarchan1827
Dantescan1834
Leopardian1881
Danteish1924
1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 66 Style..speckled even to affectation with Dantesque terms.
1833 Edinb. Rev. 57 417 A poem thoroughly Dantesque.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. xi. 154 ‘Too insipid’, said the Princess. ‘I wish that life were a little more Dantesque.’
1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match v. 126 He moved away with a look of deep dejection upon his Dantesque face.
ˈDantism n. the branch of study concerned with the works and life of Dante.
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1922 Glasgow Herald 23 Nov. 3 Since Witte's day Dantism has developed into something like an exact science.
ˈDantist n. a Dante scholar.
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1889 W. W. Vernon Readings on Dante's Purg. I. Pref. One of the greatest Dantists of his time—the late Duke of Sermoneta.
ˈDantize v. to imitate the style of Dante.
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1764 Acct. of Bks. in Ann. Reg. 272/2 Michael Angelo..is not ashamed, in some of his compositions, to dantize.
Danˈtologist n. one versed in Dantology.
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1910 Notes & Queries 30 July 83 It is as yet little known to Dantologists.
Danˈtology n. = Dantism n.
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1903 Daily Chron. 7 Jan. 3/3 This..branch of Dantology.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 548/3 There has been a remarkable flowering of Dantology under such scholars as Pézard, Gilson, [etc.].
Danˈtophilist n. an admirer of Dante.
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1859 J. R. Lowell Dante in New Amer. Cycl. VI. 253/2 The veneration of Dantophilists for their master is that of disciples for their saint.
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