Tennysonian

[ ten-uh-soh-nee-uhn ]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tennysonian¹

First recorded in 1835–45; Tennyson + -ian

Example Sentences

In the way the girl wailed forth some of her Tennysonian lines he detected a faint gleam as of something pearly in deep water.

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Punch had always been a Tennysonian, even in the days when the Laureate was still looked upon as an innovator.

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They are those of a Tennysonian, and, no doubt, would be other than they are if the writer were younger than he is.

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Here is Tennysonian verse five hundred years before Tennyson.

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It was all as sweet, harmonious, and artistically perfect as a Tennysonian stanza.

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