Euphuist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who writes with euphuism.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of euphuist. alt-of

    "There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture of abstruse calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening, his arms folded in the same angle, his eyes turned up to the same cobwebs, and his heels resting on the ground as before."

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pedantrhetorician

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"There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture of abstruse calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening, his arms folded in the same angle, his eyes turned up to the same cobwebs, and his heels resting on the ground as before."

Etymology

From Euphues + -ist, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578); see euphuism for more.

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