Rowleyan

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English

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Etymology

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From Rowley +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Rowleyan (comparative more Rowleyan, superlative most Rowleyan)

  1. Alternative form of Rowleian
    1. Relating to the literary persona of Thomas Rowley.
      • 2001, John Sitter, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry:
        The work's increased use of Rowleyan language makes the act of reading unavoidably self-conscious as we can no longer rely on our usual ways of making sense of poetry.
      • 2015, Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History, page 114:
        It seems clear that Chatterton worke out a theory of the history of English drama that would cilminate in Rowley's Ælla. We have inferred a similar theory of prosodic history from the uncertainty and irregularity of pre-Rowleyan prosody as compared to Rowley's correctness.
      • 2017, Andrew Radford, Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era:
        So Chatterton, by breaking his apprenticeship, deftly steered a course between the Bristolian and the Rowleyan voices: between 'Matrimony he shall not contracct' and 'an hollie Preeste unnmarriageabil'.
    2. Relating to William Rowley.