Brontëanadj.

/ˈbrɒntiːən/

Etymology: < the name of the Brontë family (see definition) + -an suffix.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Brontës (esp. the sisters Charlotte (1816–55), Emily (1818–48), and Anne (1820–49)), or their literary works.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer

Lucianical1561

Xenophontean1593

Sidneian1599

Anastasian1621

Theophrastical1662

Menippean1693

Varronian1693

Herodotean1748

Shaftesburian1752

Cervantic1760

Alfredian1762

Swiftian1762

Richardsonian1763

Pepysian1765

Rabelaica1768

Rabelaisian1769

Johnsonian1775

Radcliffian1801

Southeyan1817

Lucianic1820

Xenophontic1822

Thucydidean1826

Walter Scottish1827

Voltairean1833

Juvenalian1839

Dickens-like1841

Dickensian1842

Voltairish1842

Hazlittian1844

Theocritean1846

Dickensish1849

Ruskinian1850

Ruskinesque1854

Dickensy1855

Dickenesque1856

Macaulayesque1856

Ruskinite1856

Thackerayan1857

Ruskinese1863

Macaulayish1865

Walpolian1867

Dickensesque1868

Voltairianized1872

Baconian1874

Balzacian1874

Morrisian1879

Isidorian1882

Poe-like1882

Peacockian1886

Poe-esque1886

Zolaesque1886

Macaulayan1887

Bunyanesque1888

Fieldingesque1888

Junian1888

Meredithian1888

Tacitean1890

Hugoesque1893

Hardyesque1894

Kiplingesque1894

Shawian1894

Maeterlinckian1895

Dickinsonian1896

Stevensonian1897

Austenish1898

Austenian1901

Leverish1903

Pateresque1903

Trollopian1903

Malorian1904

Shavian1904

Brontesque1905

Chestertonian1905

Jamesian1905

Leveresque1905

Jacobean1906

Carrollese1907

Hardyan1907

Stendhalian1907

Turgenevian1908

Ouidaesque1909

Galsworthian1912

Poeish1915

Paterian1918

Sitwellian1920

Conradian1921

Mallarméan1924

Theophrastian1924

Wildean1924

Pirandellian1925

Proustian1925

Flaubertian1926

Wodehousian1926

Joycean1927

Stracheyan1927

Theophrastic1928

Yeatsian1928

Lawrentian1930

Firbankian1931

Melvillean1931

Leavisite1934

Runyonesque1934

Kafka1936

Woolfian1936

Twainian1938

Rilkean1939

Audenesque1940

Hemingwayesque1942

Brontëan1945

Kafkaesque1947

Leavisian1947

Morrisan1949

Orwellian1950

Faulknerian1951

Hemingwayan1951

Greeneian1952

Arnoldian1953

Thurberesque1954

Tolkienian1954

Beckettian1958

Hemingwayish1959

Nabokovian1959

Pinteresque1960

Pinterish1960

Vernean1960

Waughian1960

Bradleian1961

Gravesian1961

Kafkian1962

Jules Vernean1964

Snovian1966

Pinterian1967

Lucianesque1969

Tolkienesque1970

Thoreauvian1975

Stubbsian1979

1945 A. Huxley Time must have Stop (new ed.) vi. 69 ‘You mean, that I should be acting as Mrs. Gamble's companion?’ The final word..took on its fullest, Brontëan significance.

Derivatives

Brontëˈana n. literature connected with or bearing upon the Brontës.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary particulars of a writer > things connected with specific writer

Johnsoniana1765

Walpoliana1799

Dickensiana1842

Southeyana1847

Ruskiniana1878

Pepysiana1899

Brontëana1900

Poeana1904

Thackerayana1905

Proustiana1923

Carrolliana1924

Shaviana1927

Lawrenciana1948

1900 Daily News 17 Aug. 6/1 ‘Charlotte Brontë and her Circle’ seems..to have finally exhausted the vast and well-explored mines of Brontëana.

1928 Observer 22 July 13/4 He wished the collection to be restored to Yorkshire after his widow..had taken any Brontëana for herself.

ˈBrontëism n. a quality characteristic of the Brontës (see also -ism suffix 2).

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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

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/1 The blusterous Brontëism which..is an affliction hardly less ludicrous than Whitmania.

Bronˈtesque adj. = Brontëan adj.

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