单词 | effectist |
释义 | effectistn.adj. A. n. A writer or other creative artist who aims to make an effect. rare. ΚΠ 1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 965/2 The effectists who delight genteel people at all the theatres, and in most of the romances. 2005 N. Bentley in S. Bercovitch Cambridge Hist. Amer. Lit. III. 115 Once the novel is deliberately recast as the antidote to ‘shows and semblances’, however, it competes on the same territory of public visibility as the ‘effectists’ of mass culture. B. adj. Aiming at literary or artistic effect; characterized by effectism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style judicial1532 heroic1590 judiciary1603 wild1645 heroi-comic1708 mock-heroic1708 heroi-comical1712 flebilea1734 prosai-comi-epic1749 lusory1779 sulphureous1791 harlequinic1804 mock-heroical1825 newspaperish1825 marmoreal1892 kailyard1895 freestyle1906 paperback1921 nouny1926 Time-ese1947 nounal1952 kitchen sink1959 effectist1961 writerly1974 dirty realist1984 1961 S. E. Bowman in A. Mordell Discov. of Genius 41 He [sc. Howells] called such plots ‘effectism’, ‘effectist’, ‘faking’, ‘fables’, ‘stories’, and ‘stage plays’. 1971 E.H. Cady Light of Common Day viii. 173 The fatally false lesson that violence does not really matter; that it has no real consequences because the good guy is invulnerable and the bad guy is ‘a creature’. In the ‘effectist’ world, violence is not real. 1972 Amer. Lit. 44 338 A critique of Owen Wister's The Virginian in Howellsian terms (romanticistic and effectist). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1889 |
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