palincestuous

comparative more palincestuous · superlative most palincestuous

1. alternativerareAlternative form of palimpsestuous.

   Palincestuous relationships : a temporal reading of Michel Tournier's Le Médianoche amoureux

   1987, Current Research in French Studies at Universities and University Colleges in the United Kingdom

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   This is the wordplayer's ad hoc approach: recycle the existent. It makes Tournier, like Joyce, a 'palincestuous' writer.

   2008 February 21, W. D. Redfern, French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

   This is the palincestuous technique at its most productive, where the prose is expansive rather than reductive, always working to enliven the sensibility of the reader.

   2017 December 8, Ben Masters, Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57