Erewhonian

comparative more Erewhonian · superlative most Erewhonian

1. Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Erewhon.

   The Erewhonian conflation of mechanical energy and capitalist value extends to their attitude toward machinery.

   2015, Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, page 91

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   This seems to be the customary Erewhonian approach to a problem, this time the problem of the incorporeality of God.

   1969, Miriam Strauss Weiss, A Lively Corpse, page 334

   The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella.

   1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

   The four chapters of Davenport's work generally follow the same scheme. Adriaan calls section one "An Erewhonian Sketchbook" and uses a Napoleonic rather than a Gregorian calendar redesignating the months Messidor (July), Thermidor (August), and Fructidor (September).

   2003, Farhat Iftekharuddin, Joseph Boyden, Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story, page 139

   Those opposed to the Erewhonian programme are apt to object that it disregards moral guilt as a necessary condition of a just punishment and thus leads to a condition in which any person may be sacrificed to the welfare of society.

   2008, H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law, page 52

plural Erewhonians

1. An inhabitant of the fictional land of Erewhon.

   I've never heard of him. What sort of name is that for an Erewhonian?

   2004, Laraine Anne Barker, The Obsidian Quest, page 101

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   If so, my own history itself is the history of an average Erewhonian!

   2009, Alexander Raju, The Haunted Man: A Novel, page 18

   If an Erewhonian plays his role as a martyr with a smile, it is through metaphysical agility.

   2017, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Macrobiotics (1715-2017)