Addisonian
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.
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fluent and clear in literary style.
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of or relating to Addison's disease.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Addisonian
Example Sentences
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There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several ingenious men were in the habit of writing little Addisonian essays for the paper, and Benjamin, hearing their conversation, was fired to try his own skill.
From Benjamin Franklin by Paul Elmer More
Is not the author’s contention, however, as to the great loss the Addisonian essay suffers when isolated from its context a severe criticism on that essay as literature?
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
In these letters, his earliest work of any significance, he touches the Addisonian string upon which his critics have harped so insistently ever since.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
He liked prose to be clear and stately; he liked it, in English, to be Addisonian.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
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