Paterian

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to Walter Pater (1839–1894), English essayist, critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.

Etymology

From Pater + -ian.

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