epopee
Americannoun
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an epic.
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epic poetry.
noun
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an epic poem
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epic poetry in general
Etymology
Origin of epopee
1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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The comparison therefore which I made betwixt the epopee and the tragedy was not altogether a digression, for it is concluded on all hands that they are both the masterpieces of human wit.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
This epopee in the history of the civil war will immortalize the army, but the strategian's immortality will differ from that of the army.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee: short spontaneous effusions prepare the way, and furnish materials for the architectonic genius of the poet.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
The French epopee had its origin in the national songs of the Germanic invaders of Gaul, adopted from their conquerors by the Gallo-Romans.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
The poem is complete in itself, but it was designed as a fragment of that vast modern epopee, with humanity for the hero, of which La Chute d'un Ange was another fragment.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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