Neopastoral

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.

    "But while the traditional pastoral ideal is foreclosed, a neopastoral appeal is beginning to sound, whereby the logic of the via media is, mutatis mutandis, translated across time and space into the terrain of contemporary America."

Example

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"But while the traditional pastoral ideal is foreclosed, a neopastoral appeal is beginning to sound, whereby the logic of the via media is, mutatis mutandis, translated across time and space into the terrain of contemporary America."

Etymology

From neo- + pastoral.

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