From <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span> + -ian. Leavisian (comparative more Leavisian, superlative most Leavisian) Of or relating to F. R. <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span> (1895–1978), influential British...
recognize; showing recognition. 1950, Lionel Charles Knights, Frank Raymond <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span>, Scrutiny, volume 17, page 27: […] and it is himself who looks out recognizingly...
believe the times were still worse. 1995, F. R. <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span>, Ian Duncan MacKillop, Richard Storer, editors, F.R. <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span>: Essays and Documents, published 2005, page...
poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span> types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance. (of a person) Bookish...
poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span> types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance. bury the hatchet hatchetation...
fictional style, page 7: Unfortunately, no critic (not excluding F. R. <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span>) has paid sufficient attention to this painful and brooding aspect of Egbert's...
with a younger generation. 1953, Lionel Charles Knights, Frank Raymond <span class="searchmatch">Leavis</span>, editors, Scrutiny, volume 16, Deighton, Bell and Co, page 309: Milly’s...