Byronically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Then, after the couple returns to England, “The Hawk in the Rain” makes its author almost Byronically famous.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2015
Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
But at last he rose up against Fate; he cursed it Byronically.
From Orientations by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Another sent me reams of poetry and went on so Byronically that I began to wish I had red hair and my name was Betsy Ann.
From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May
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