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English
Etymology
From Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”) + -eous.
Adjective
naufrageous (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) Alternative form of naufragous
1880, Howard Payson Arnold, “The Schlucht Promenade. – The Linnæa” (chapter IV), in Gleanings from Pontresina and the Upper Engadine, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 57:Whence this incongruous union, suggestive only of mutual reproaches, eternal bickerings, plumbaginous and naufrageous epithets, broken crockery, charges of cold feet and a final appeal to the courts ?
1994, William J. Kennedy, “Authorizing Petrarch in England”, in Authorizing Petrarch, Cornell University Press, page 226:The shipwreck portends disaster for the body politic when error undoes the social fabric. Petrarch’s amatory conflict blurs into an ideological one about the poet’s responsibilities to the structures of power in his time. All this for a naufrageous song.