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
If you clearly understand a proposition, you can state it in clear and unambiguous language, though perhaps not in Addisonian English.
From How to Study by George Fillmore Swain
There is an airy grace about the best pieces of Washington Irving, which has no parallel amongst English writers, however closely modelled may be his style upon that of the Addisonian age.
From The Biglow Papers by Thomas Hughes
The style here is eruptive and complex, or what Jeremy Taylor calls agglomerative, and puts the Addisonian models utterly to rout,—a style such as only the largest and most Titanic workman could effectively use.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
He concludes with an account, written in an Addisonian vein, of a club to which he had the honour to belong.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
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