I'm achillean.
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Achillean
//əˈkɪliən//
Synonyms for "achillean" (1 found)
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9 translations across 5 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- aquil·lià adj (resembling Achilles)
- aquil·lià adj (relating love between men)
French
1 entries- achilléen adj (resembling Achilles)
Hungarian
1 entries- akhilleuszi adj (resembling Achilles)
Portuguese
4 entries- aquileu adj (resembling Achilles)
- aquileu adj (relating love between men)
- aquiliano adj (resembling Achilles)
- aquiliano adj (relating love between men)
Spanish
1 entries- Aquileano adj (resembling Achilles)
Sample sentences
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Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined.
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There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.
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