Definitions for Parnassian

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Parnassian Par·nas·si·an

Spelling: [pahr-nas-ee-uh n]

IPA: /pɑrˈnæs i ən/

Parnassian is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in Parnassian (aaainnprss).

Definitions for Parnassian

noun

1. a member of the Parnassian school of French poets.

adjective

1. pertaining to Mount Parnassus.
2. pertaining to poetry.
3. of, relating to, or noting a school of French poets of the latter half of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by a belief in art for art's sake, by an emphasis on metrical form, and by the repression of emotive elements: so called from Le Parnasse Contemporain, the title of their first collection of poems, published in 1866.

Origin of Parnassian

1635-45; Latin Parnassi(us) of Parnassus + -an

Examples for Parnassian

It is a Parnassian Samain, but always personal, even in grandiloquence.

But his fiction leaves me cold, as Parnassian poetry did others, but not me.

Apollo rose, his brow wreathed with Parnassian laurel, while his robe of Tyrian purple swept the ground.

In his first two books he had been a realist and a Parnassian.

Barrs imbibed from the Parnassian poetic group his artistic remoteness.

I did an injustice to Parnassian in my answer to him last week.

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers.

Scudery, brother of the celebrated Mademoiselle Scudery, was a true Parnassian bully.

But when Pope undertakes to hunt down the vermin of literature, this is no distraction of the Parnassian realm by civil war.

Many years have passed since Marcia dreamt of the Gods and of their Parnassian conclave.