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English
Etymology
From Voltaire + -an.
Adjective
Voltairean (comparative more Voltairean, superlative most Voltairean)
- (philosophy) Of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778; pen name "Voltaire"), French writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and defence of civil liberties.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:"What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."
Translations
of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet, pen name Voltaire
Noun
Voltairean (plural Voltaireans)
- (philosophy) A person who subscribes to the philosophy of Voltaire.
1855, Richard Francis Burton, chapter II, in A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, volume I, London: Tylston & Edwards, published 1893, page 21:Then hearing that I was a Darwaysh and doctor—he must be an Osmanli Voltairean, that little Turk—the official snorted a contemptuous snort.
Translations
person who subscribes to the philosophy of Voltaire
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