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Byronically

American  
[bahy-rahn-ik-lee] / baɪˈrɑn ɪk li /

adverb

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


Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2015

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

From Orientations by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

In that case, my native land, good night," responded the interesting captive, Byronically; "my incarceration will terminate with an epitaph—'Hic Jacet Robert Peters.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

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