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Goethean

American  
[gur-tee-uhn] / ˈgɜr ti ən /

adjective

  1. relating to or characteristic of the writing, ideas, or style of Goethe.


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The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.

From Time Magazine Archive

This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Goethean point of view we see heat passing through a metamorphosis.

From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs

Neither has he that Goethean calm in regard to his rivals.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A Goethean disciple is able, then, to worship Life, with no mystery behind it!

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

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