Tennysonian

American  

[ten-uh-soh-nee-uhn] / ˌtɛn əˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Tennyson or his writings.

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Etymology

Origin of Tennysonian

First recorded in 1835–45; Tennyson + -ian

Example Sentences

The Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Burne-Jones also got a title, doing Tennysonian tapestries of never-never land subjects in colors that inspired the Gilbert and Sullivan phrase "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Good Heavens, I am quoting poetry! what will you think of me, to have gone back to the Wertherian and Tennysonian days so far as to repeat a triplet of Longfellow's?

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida