Websterian
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
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pertaining to or characteristic of Noah Webster or his dictionary.
Etymology
Origin of Websterian
Example Sentences
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Ratcliffe is "a great ponderous man, over six feet high, very . . . dignified," with "rather good features" and a bald Websterian head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pomerene, a solemn, bookish man with a Websterian manner, whose hobby is growing early table corn, is not a banker.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Websterian ideal of language as a careful garden of hardy perennials and occasional exotics, cultivated by a corps of devoted lexicographers, is consistently challenged by a weedy invasion of the vulgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
You'll hear some old fool make a Websterian speech full of periods and rhetoric, and you'll straight-way imagine yourself in love with him.
From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Nor has this diabolism anything grand or impressive about it—anything that "intends greatly" and glows, as has been said, with a black splendour, in Marlowesque or Websterian fashion.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
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