euphuist
- a word derived from euphuism.
Example Sentences
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Professor Raleigh's explanation of this tedious moralizing is that Lyly, wit and euphuist, possessed the Nonconformist conscience: "Beneath the courtier's slashed doublet, under his ornate brocade and frills, there stood the Puritan."
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
Yet again, he puts Bruno's large aphorism, "Sol et homo generant hominem," beside Hamlet's gibe about the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog—a phrase possible to any euphuist of the period.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Moryson was a plain man, Coryat a euphuist of the first water.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The remarks that have been made concerning Greene apply in a large measure also to his fellow euphuist Thomas Lodge.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
It should be added that, euphuist as Greene was, few of his contemporaries in their lyrics warbled wood-notes which like his resemble Shakespeare’s in their native freshness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
