Plutarchian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
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characteristic of or resembling a biography by Plutarch or its subject.
a life worthy of Plutarchian description; a deed of Plutarchian splendor.
Etymology
Origin of Plutarchian
Example Sentences
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When he successfully escaped from a semantics trap baited by Douglas, the Illinoisan tossed him a barbed Plutarchian salute: "We will meet again at Philippi."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Plutarchian method there was ever a snare, and I have come near treading in it.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
He has the soul of a Plutarchian hero, and where two ways present themselves, the most natural is for him the most heroic.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
He evidently wanted to portray a Plutarchian man of heroic size, and he therefore had to exclude all that was subtly individualizing.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
In that respect Theodore Hook is Paul's Plutarchian parallel, though he has more literature and less life.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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