epigonus
Americannoun
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epigoni
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Wagner is a thorough-going decadent, an off-shoot, an epigonus, not a progonus.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is pleasant to meet with a little gratitude to Darwin among the epigoni who are squabbling over the heritage he conquered for them, but Mr. Cunningham's personal expression of that feeling is hasty.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
But after the newly opened fields have been exhausted the epigoni can do little but recombine, often in fantastic ways, the old elements; public taste turns from them and demands something new.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
We, perhaps, being epigoni ourselves, are more at home among our fellow-pygmies.
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by William Ralph Inge
It is refreshing to turn from the epigoni of the so-called Roman school to masters in whom the flame of the Renaissance still burned brightly.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
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