Miltonic

American  

[mil-ton-ik] / mɪlˈtɒn ɪk /

Also Miltonian

adjective

1. of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.

2. resembling Milton's majestic style.

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Miltonic British  

/ mɪlˈtəʊnɪən, mɪlˈtɒnɪk /

adjective

1. characteristic of or resembling Milton's literary style, esp in being sublime and majestic

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Other Word Forms

• pseudo-Miltonic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Miltonic

First recorded in 1700–10; Milton + -ic

Example Sentences

There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

As for the Miltonic saga of Dodge’s godhood, which gradually comes to dominate the narrative, Stephenson more or less gives us a cyber-“Silmarillion.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2019

Maybe Chris Christie obeyed the Miltonic call to “Com, and trip it as ye go, / On the light fantastick toe.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

And then there are all the Miltonic similes in the bear fight, and the witches sometimes playing the role of the angels.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2015

I blended Catholicism with borrowed insights from Sartre and Zen and Buber and Miltonic Protestantism.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez