Chestertonian

plural Chestertonians

1. A person who supports G. K. Chesterton, especially in his theology.

   The children of light, whether they are Chestertonians or not, cannot afford to pass by The New Jerusalem.

   1921, review of The New Jerusalem, in The Catholic World (volume 113, no 674), May 1921 p. 241

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   All this upsets our Chestertonian, who, reflecting that Britannia needs no boulevards, no spaces wide and gay, feels it somehow irritating that the French should need them either.

   2003, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950-2000, W. W. Norton & Company, page 68

comparative more Chestertonian · superlative most Chestertonian

1. Of or relating to G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and lay theologian.

   The situation is like that in the Chesterfieldian (or is it perhaps actually Chestertonian?) definition of a gentleman: "One who is never rude by accident."

   1993, New Scientist, volume 138, numbers 1874-9, page 49