Lincolnesque
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Lincolnesque
Example Sentences
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In a very Lincolnesque way, right makes might.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Its founder, Job Harriman, was a Lincolnesque preacher and lawyer from Indiana.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023
Captain America, the embodiment of a kind of Lincolnesque optimism, poses a direct question for me: Why would anyone believe in The Dream?
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2018
Ran against him, sometimes disagree, but proud to be a friend of @SenJohnMcCain: hero, champion of character and last night, Lincolnesque.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017
I looked at him, at the long, bony, almost Lincolnesque face.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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