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Byronic

[ bahy-ron-ik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Lord Byron.
  2. possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Dzi·· adverb
  • ·Dz· [bahy, -r, uh, -niz-, uh, m], noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Byronic1

First recorded in 1815–25; Byron + -ic
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Example Sentences

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So were his swagger and Byronic good looks.

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In heroic, Byronic fashion, the show’s director and lead Fabian Hinrichs rescued the evening by jumping into the fray and assuming his absent co-star’s role, along with his own.

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Mussolini himself ended up being lynched alongside his mistress at a Milan petrol station by his own countrymen — hardly the Byronic man of destiny's heroic death in battle.

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The gaps and silences suggest a woman who cherished privacy and quietude, a woman seeking shelter from her Byronic reputation.

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The sisters are celebrated for their writing — totally — for the creation of the three-dimensional Jane and Catherine and the Byronic bad boys Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff.

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