Byronically
Americanadverb
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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
The shirt collar should never have a color on it, but it may be stiff or turned down according as the wearer is Byronically or Brummellically disposed.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
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 Louisa May Alcott
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