Meanings
- Characteristic of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
I have only detected one error myself, but it is a very Macaulayesque one . He speaks of 'the oaks of Magdalen:' they are elms. There was no occasion to say anything but trees, but the temptation to say something particular was too strong. It makes one distrust all his descriptions, and[…]
1869, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Poems and Prose Remains: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, page 2261 more example
Here again is the heroic figure, here again are the Macaulayesque paradoxes and the noisy but lucid style. Instead of a simple narration of what happens, Macaulay begins with a summary statement under which all that occurs through the length of two impressive and exciting chapters is noted[…]
2015 December 8, George Levine, Boundaries of Fiction, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 143
Origin
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Macaulayesque. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Macaulayesque
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