Addisonian

American  

[ad-uh-soh-nee-uhn] / ˌæd əˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.

2. fluent and clear in literary style.

3. of or relating to Addison's disease.

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noun

1. one who studies the works of Joseph Addison.

Etymology

Origin of Addisonian

Addison + -ian

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Example Sentences

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Addisonian

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

The tales are of extraordinary merit, remarkable for the simplicity and natural grace of the style, and the preface is a specimen of consummate excellence in point of quiet Addisonian humour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

He, therefore, one evening prepared an article, before he was sixteen years of age, which, with the greatest care, was written in pure Addisonian diction.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

The style here is eruptive and complex, or what Jeremy Taylor calls agglomerative, and puts the Addisonian models utterly to rout,—a style such as only the largest and most Titanic workman could effectively use.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

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