Addisonian
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.
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fluent and clear in literary style.
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of or relating to Addison's disease.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Addisonian
Example Sentences
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There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile Swift, who could not follow the Addisonian way of kindness and courtesy, was eating bitter bread and railing at humanity.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph
He liked prose to be clear and stately; he liked it, in English, to be Addisonian.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
He complains gently in his Addisonian way of the inconvenience to which he was put for want of funds.
From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard
My library was stocked with dreamy and diverting compositions—old Walton, the pensive angler; the vagaries of ancient Burton, and the placid essayists of the Addisonian day.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
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