Boswellianadj.n.
/bɒzˈwɛlɪən/ A. adj.
Resembling Boswell as a biographer.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [adjective] > resembling Boswell as a biographer
Boswellian1843
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 54 The ‘Chronicle’, or private Boswellean Notebook, of Jocelin.
1855 Rambler III. 485 The average Englishman..has been bored by the Boswellian adoration of the Corsican Paoli.
1884 Graphic 21 June 607/2 Mr. Hatton..puts down everything with more than Boswellian minuteness.
B. n.
A student or admirer of Boswell.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer
Tacitist1656
Johnsonian1778
Richardsonian1778
Miltonist1830
Voltairean1842
Dickensite1849
Shakespearolater1875
Cervantist1881
Rabelaisian1882
Dickensian1885
Peacockian1886
Zolaist1886
Meredithian1892
Hardyan1896
Janeite1896
Stevensonian1897
Kiplingite1898
Hazlittian1902
Austenite1903
Balzacian1905
Shavian1905
Boswellian1908
Jacobite1909
Thackerayan1909
Trollopian1910
Wellsian1916
Proustian1919
Sitwellian1920
Pirandellist1925
Thoreauvian1927
Walpolian1927
Austenian1928
Stendhalian1928
Poeist1929
Morrisite1936
Joycean1938
Wodehousian1939
Lucianist1940
Woolfian1944
Leavisite1946
Jamesian1954
Yeatsian1954
Leavisian1955
Lawrentian1957
Lawrentian1959
Beckettian1965
Orwellian1971
1908 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 3/4 Their appearance in print was hailed with pleasure by Johnsonians and Boswellians.
1921 Glasgow Herald 29 Jan. 13 Johnsonians and Boswellians alike will therefore receive with joyful gratitude Dr. J. T. T. Brown's paper.
Derivatives
ˈBoswellism n. the characteristic manner or style of Boswell as a biographer.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
Marlowism1593
Rabelaism1803
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Boswellism1825
Swiftianism1826
Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
Rabelaisianism1886
Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
1825 T. B. Macaulay Ess. (1860) I. 58 That propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.
1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 345 A rooted aversion to anything like Boswellism.
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