Empsonian

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English

Etymology

From Empson +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Empsonian (comparative more Empsonian, superlative most Empsonian)

  1. Of or pertaining to William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 620:
      It was a memory of a poetry lesson in her training college in Liverpool: an earnest Empsonian young man, not really attractive.

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