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epigone

[ ep-i-gohn ]

noun

  1. an undistinguished imitator, follower, or successor of an important writer, painter, etc.


epigone

/ ˈɛpɪˌɡəʊn; ˈɛpɪˌɡɒn /

noun

  1. rare.
    an inferior follower or imitator
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··Dz· [ep-i-, gon, -ik], adjective
  • ·辱··Ծ [ih-, pig, -, uh, -niz-, uh, m, e-, pig, -, ep, -, uh, -goh-niz-im, -gon-iz-], noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of epigone1

First recorded in 1860–65; from Latin epigonus, from Greek íDzԴDz “(one) born afterward,” equivalent to epi- + -gonos, akin to íԱٳ󲹾 “to be born, become”; epi-
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of epigone1

C19: from Greek epigonos one born after, from epigignesthai; see epigene
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Example Sentences

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Were Lowell nearly as cruel in his rather anodyne and flattering portraits of his literary mentors, friends and epigones, the “Life Among Writers” section of “Memoirs” would be immeasurably more interesting.

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Gingrich inspired in his epigones a destructive — or to use a favorite term of his brightest student, “nasty” — style of politics.

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It’s unfair to blame Szeemann for the faults of his epigones.

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Though Le Corbusier helped master plan the city of Chandigarh in India, and epigones pursued this vision in Cambodia and Sri Lanka, it was Japan that would take up Corbusianism most powerfully.

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The closer stylistic juxtaposition would be to Mozart, but Gaveaux is an epigone with little of the Viennese master’s effervescence.

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