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English
Etymology
From Chesterton + -ian.
Noun
Chestertonian (plural Chestertonians)
- A person who supports G. K. Chesterton, especially in his theology.
- 1921, review of The New Jerusalem, in The Catholic World (volume 113, no 674), May 1921 p. 241
- The children of light, whether they are Chestertonians or not, cannot afford to pass by The New Jerusalem.
2003, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950-2000, W. W. Norton & Company, page 68:All this upsets our Chestertonian, who, reflecting that Britannia needs no boulevards, no spaces wide and gay, feels it somehow irritating that the French should need them either.
Adjective
Chestertonian (comparative more Chestertonian, superlative most Chestertonian)
- Of or relating to G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and lay theologian.
1993, New Scientist, volume 138, numbers 1874-9, page 49:The situation is like that in the Chesterfieldian (or is it perhaps actually Chestertonian?) definition of a gentleman: "One who is never rude by accident."
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