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Noun

Wordsworthian (plural Wordsworthians)

• A scholar of the works of William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet.
  • ✤ The inside of it is, however, what interests the Wordsworthian.¹

Adjective

Wordsworthian (comparative more Wordsworthian, superlative most Wordsworthian)

• Pertaining to or characteristic of William Wordsworth.
  • ✤ The sentiment is of a distinctly Wordsworthian quality.²
  • ✤ The whole area was tastefully laid out with gardens full of daffodils and other Wordsworthian aids to memory.³
  • ✤ We don’t have Alps in this country, but we have the Drakensberg, or on a smaller scale Table Mountain, which we climb in the wake of the poets, hoping for one of those revelatory, Wordsworthian moments we have all heard about.⁴
  • ✤ The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.⁵

Etymology

From Wordsworth +‎ -ian.

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Footnotes

1. 1905, J. Roger Rees, Preface to Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth. ↩

2. 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 241: ↩

3. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 479: ↩

4. 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 23: ↩

5. 2005, H. Elam, F. Ferguson, G. H. Hartman, (title): ↩