Fowlerianadj.
/faʊˈlɪərɪən/, U.S. /ˌfaʊˈlɪriən/ Of, relating to, or resembling H. W. Fowler or his work (see Fowler n.2), esp. in prescribing or imposing rules for correct English grammar and usage.
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1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 902/1 The work is..edited on the same ‘Fowlerian’ principles [as the Concise Oxford Dictionary].
1958 Commentary 25 338/1 Sometimes the Evanses take a strong Fowlerian tone.
1964 Austral. Lit. Stud. 1 iv. 229 The Fowlerian virtues of simplicity and clarity of prose style.
1984 Spectator 17 Mar. 25/3 He does not hold to the old Fowlerian dogma that for defining relative clauses that only must be used.
1997 P. Peters & A. Delbridge in E. W. Schneider Englishes around World II. 305 Signs of Fowlerian influence can be found in usage books written in Australia during the last decade.
2012 New Yorker 14 May 119/1 The novelist Kingsley Amis, who wrote a very Fowlerian manual called ‘The King's English’.., instructed us that ‘medieval’ was to be pronounced in four syllables as ‘meedy-eeval’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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