Tacitean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Tacitean
Example Sentences
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Fichte, Herder, Grimm — they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes.
From New York Times
The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations.
From New York Times
Swann was more Tacitean – initially.
From The Guardian
It is but natural that, in the loosening of all the bonds of social order, during the wanderings, the ancient Tacitean purity and monogamy was, to a large extent, lost.
From Project Gutenberg
If the realization of this wish be the hope of statesmen, the historian of culture can only desire that the race remain according to a Tacitean word regarding the Teuton "similar only to itself."
From Project Gutenberg
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