Whitmanite
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An admirer or imitator of American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
"Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn at the end of it that he didn't know what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like what deacons used to be' And he, mind you, was in his twenties, and claimed, ore rotundo, to be a Whitmanite, a Shavian, and a socialist."
- 1 Of or relating to the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
Example
More examples"Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn at the end of it that he didn't know what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like what deacons used to be' And he, mind you, was in his twenties, and claimed, ore rotundo, to be a Whitmanite, a Shavian, and a socialist."
Etymology
From Whitman + -ite.
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