Wertherianadj.

/vəːˈtɪərɪən/

Forms: Also Werterian, Werterean.

Etymology: < German Werther, the hero of Goethe's romance ‘Die Leiden des jungen Werther’ (1774) + -ian suffix.

Morbidly sentimental.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] > morbidly

Wertherian1834

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v, in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 302/2 Their mad Petrarchan and Werterean ware.

1850 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 249 Some who are accustomed to consider that poem [Locksley Hall] as Werterian and unhealthy.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 22 The Byronic despair, the Wertherian despondency.

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxiv An ancient love-lorn swain..full of imaginary sorrows and Wertherian grief.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	wertherian
释义	Wertherianadj. /vəːˈtɪərɪən/ Forms: Also Werterian, Werterean. Etymology: < German Werther, the hero of Goethe's romance ‘Die Leiden des jungen Werther’ (1774) + -ian suffix. Morbidly sentimental. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] > morbidly Wertherian1834 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v, in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 302/2 Their mad Petrarchan and Werterean ware. 1850 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 249 Some who are accustomed to consider that poem [Locksley Hall] as Werterian and unhealthy. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 22 The Byronic despair, the Wertherian despondency. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxiv An ancient love-lorn swain..full of imaginary sorrows and Wertherian grief. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1834
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