Titanism

American  

[tahyt-n-iz-uhm] / ˈtaɪt nˌɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. revolt against tradition, convention, and established order.

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Titanism British  

/ ˈtaɪtəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a spirit of defiance of and rebellion against authority, social convention, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Titanism

First recorded in 1865–70; Titan + -ism

Example Sentences

The protest of Prometheus, echoed by Browning's protest of Ixion, appeals to the conscience of the world as right; and, kindling a noble Titanism, puts the divine oppressor in the wrong.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

Here also there has been an apparently reasonable Titanism.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

On the one hand it is a Titanic defence of the universe against the stage Titanism of Byron's Cain.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

Study of Celtic Literature": "The Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, of this Titanism in poetry.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Of this consciousness, no external power could deprive him, and it is this consciousness that is the governing idea of the fragment, and not the Titanism of the Prometheus of Æschylus.

From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume