Grandisonian

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English

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Etymology

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From Grandison +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Grandisonian (comparative more Grandisonian, superlative most Grandisonian)

  1. scrupulously moral and chivalrous, like the fictional Sir Charles Grandison in The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753), an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson.
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