Learlike

English

Adjective

Learlike (comparative more Learlike, superlative most Learlike)

1. Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
   • 1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 7, in The Diamond, and the Pearl‎^[1], volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 144:

     He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling perhaps a Learlike sympathy with the elements raging around him, and bringing the billowy surges to his feet.

   • 1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎^[2], New York: William Morrow, page 265:

     […] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]

   • 2003, Rafe Esquith, chapter 8, in There Are No Shortcuts‎^[3], New York: Pantheon, page 118:

     Of course, no one in the system cares, so his anger is Learlike, screaming to the deaf heavens.