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Definition of Pynchon
1. Noun. United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pynchon
Literary usage of Pynchon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"AGREEMENT OF INHABITANTS OF AGAWAM, APPOINTING WILLIAM Pynchon A MAGISTRATE. ...
Court in Massachusets Bay) Mf William Pynchon to execute the office of a ..."
2. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"But in obedience to orders, on October 4, Pynchon took all the garrison from ...
Pynchon and Appleton moved rapidly down from Hadley, but arrived too late ..."
3. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1863)
"WILLIAM Pynchon TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR. To the Right Worship/ull Mr. John ...
that if ther * William Pynchon, named an assistant in the Massachusetts Charter, ..."
4. American Leading Cases: Being Select Decisions of American Courts, in by John Innes Clark Hare, United States Courts, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1871)
"William S. Rossiter came to Watertown with a power of attorney from Pynchon, took
charge of the property assigned, and was employed as the ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"[This John Pynchon, who died in 1654, was the son of Sir Edward Pynchon and his
wife Dorothy Weston, and the father of г Bridget Pynchon, ..."
6. The Puritan in England and New England by Ezra Hoyt Byington (1896)
"This action led to a prolonged controversy, in which Mr. Pynchon acted as the
leader of the Colonists. Their position was finally sustained by the general ..."
7. The Puritan in England and New England by Ezra Hoyt Byington (1896)
"This action led to a prolonged controversy, in which Mr. Pynchon acted as the
leader of the Colonists. Their position was finally sustained by the General ..."