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Definition of Donnian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or in the manner of John Donne.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donnian
Literary usage of Donnian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"There is the distinctively donnian employment of ideas derived from physical ...
Such is the famous image of the compass, best known of the donnian conceits ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by Pitt Taylor, John Pitt Taylor, William Ellis Hume Williams (1906)
"Allen, 1840, 12 A. & E. 451 (Ld. donnian), as to subsequent 451; Fleming r.
Fleming, 1.SG2, 31 declarations; Doe r. ..."
3. A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1899)
"There is the distinctively donnian employment of ideas derived from physical and
speculative science : the body is the ' sphere' or superficies which ..."
4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1875)
"... Lord donnian. Hon. Justice Derby, Earl of Dixon, George, MP Dodds, Joseph, MP
Droop, HR Ducie, Earl of Dudley, Earl of Dunn, EC Dunsany, ..."
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