Miltonic describes something related to the poet John Milton or his grand and majestic writing style.
Miltonic describes something that is of, pertains to, or resembles the majestic style of the poet John Milton.
| Front | Miltonic \mil-TON-ik\ also Miltonian |
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| Back | adjective 1. Of or pertaining to the poet Milton or his writings. 2. Resembling Milton's majestic style. [After John Milton (1608-1674).] "Siphoning off the grandeur of his Miltonic inspiration and transfusing it with foggily redundant obscenities, Lord-Wolff denatures evil into sniggering adolescent angst." - Sybil Steinberg, Forecasts: Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Dec 20, 1999. |
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