Titanism

American  

[tahyt-n-iz-uhm] / ˈtaɪt nˌɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. revolt against tradition, convention, and established order.

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Titanism British  

/ ˈtaɪtəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a spirit of defiance of and rebellion against authority, social convention, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Titanism

First recorded in 1865–70; Titan + -ism

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Example Sentences

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Titanism

The idea of Titanism has become the commonplace of poets.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

On the one hand it is a Titanic defence of the universe against the stage Titanism of Byron's Cain.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

There is the Titanism of the Celt, his passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact; and of whom does it remind us so much as of Byron?

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

The protest of Prometheus, echoed by Browning's protest of Ixion, appeals to the conscience of the world as right; and, kindling a noble Titanism, puts the divine oppressor in the wrong.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

Both are Titanic figures exactly in the pagan sense, but the form of Faustus' Titanism is the revolt against theology.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

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