Miltonic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
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resembling Milton's majestic style.
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There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
As for the Miltonic saga of Dodge’s godhood, which gradually comes to dominate the narrative, Stephenson more or less gives us a cyber-“Silmarillion.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2019
Maybe Chris Christie obeyed the Miltonic call to “Com, and trip it as ye go, / On the light fantastick toe.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
What other Miltonic Easter eggs should we look out for?
From Slate • Nov. 5, 2015
Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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