单词 | george sandism |
释义 | George Sandismn. Now chiefly historical. Actions or beliefs reminiscent of the life or works of George Sand; spec. a lack of regard for conventional female behaviour. ΚΠ 1843 Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 102/1 Observe the agitated frenzy of M. Pierre Leroux.., with divorce, dissolution, disruption, George Sandism, in every part of his aspect and attire. 1893 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 365 There has been George Sandism in her life. But as she is not polemical, and lives in a country in which divorce is made easy, she does not preach crusades against marriage. 1906 W. R. Nicoll Key of Blue Closet xviii. 160 About the middle of last century there was a great outbreak of George Sandism in English society, and particularly in English literary society. 1969 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 20 319 ‘George Sandism’ did not prevail and even George Eliot (save for her one lapse) lived a life of disciplined respectability in the eyes of society. 2002 A. Brown tr. G. Bock Women in European Hist. v. 195 Kollontai's visions were condemned as bourgeois ‘George Sandism’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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