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Byronically

[bahy-rahn-ik-lee]

adverb

  1. in the characteristic romantic, melancholic, etc., manner of a Byronic hero or literary style.



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Then, after the couple returns to England, “The Hawk in the Rain” makes its author almost Byronically famous.

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The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

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The shirt collar should never have a color on it, but it may be stiff or turned down according as the wearer is Byronically or Brummellically disposed.

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Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work.

But at last he rose up against Fate; he cursed it Byronically.

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