Byronic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Lord Byron.
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possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.
Other Word Forms
- Byronically adverb
- Byronism noun
Etymology
Origin of Byronic
Example Sentences
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The sisters are celebrated for their writing — totally — for the creation of the three-dimensional Jane and Catherine and the Byronic bad boys Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2022
Hannah Arendt, for example, decimated the archetype of grandiose, Byronic villainy by identifying the “banality of evil” in Adolf Eichmann.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2019
Early on, Brown affected a showy persona: long hair, blousy white shirts with billowing sleeves, leather vests, velvet pants tucked into knee-high boots, and Byronic capes.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019
As writer Rebecca Traister pointed out on Twitter, a woman who abandoned her family for "self-discovery tours" would be regarded as a selfish monster, not a Byronic hero.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2019
And here is Mr. Rochester, waiting for her, in all his Byronic heroism.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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