fustianist

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noun

A pompous writer.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounfustianist (plural fustianists)

plural fustianists

  1. archaicA pompous writer.

    I feel convinced therefore that your Lordship, fustianist though you may be, must have blushed to indulge in such pribble prabble

    1834, a member of the Univversity of Cambridge, A Letter to the Right Rev. Dr. Philpotts
    1 more example

    and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero.

    1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 193

Origin

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