Definitions for Johnsonese

Johnsonese John·son·ese

Spelling: [jon-suh-neez, -nees]
IPA: /ˌdʒɒn səˈniz, -ˈnis/

Johnsonese is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in Johnsonese (eehjnnooss).

Definitions for Johnsonese

noun

  1. a literary style characterized by rhetorically balanced, often pompous phraseology and an excessively Latinate vocabulary: so called from the style of writing practiced by Samuel Johnson.

Origin of Johnsonese

First recorded in 1835-45; Johnson + -ese

Examples for Johnsonese

The literary style of Mary Wollstonecraft's book is Johnsonese, but its thought forms the base of all that has come after.

When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese.

Sebastian, for his part, might have found some difficulty in translating into Johnsonese the twisted asceticism of Stuart Heron.

I read my Johnson and Locke that winter and tried to write a little in the Johnsonese buckram style.

What sort of an appearance would they present when furnished in a blend of Johnsonese and his own stheticism?

The stuffed buckram of Johnsonese had been succeeded by the mincing hifalutin of Mrs. Anne Radcliffe and her like.

When he wrote for publication he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese.

But her adventures are told in a style which is the oddest compound of Romantesque and Johnsonese.

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