Procnean

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adjective

Pertaining to or reminiscent of Procne.

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Meanings

adjectiveProcnean (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarePertaining to or reminiscent of Procne.

    [...] in order to explore the links between thought and action, Cydippean mora and Procnean revenge.

    2016, James Harmer, Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    As in the twin engravings by Antonio Tempesta (Plates 3 and 4), of Tereus and Philomena, and the Procnean banquet, the follow-through from rape to death was a frequent Renaissance theme.

    1985, Bowers, Studies in iconography, volume 10, page 93

    In making his Althaea post- and propter-Procnean, Ovid extends the same rhetoric of maternal revenge and the conflictual passions and identities associated with it, [...]

    2015, Mairéad McAuley., Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius, →ISBN

Origin

From Procne + -an.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

Procnean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Procnean

MLA

“Procnean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Procnean. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Procnean,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Procnean.

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