Zweigian

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English

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Etymology

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Zweig +‎ -ian

Adjective

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Zweigian (comparative more Zweigian, superlative most Zweigian)

  1. Of or relating to Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942).
    • 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books[1], volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:
      It is a strange performance, the clash of callow self-certainty with a certain innate modesty, resolved in a (typically Zweigian) stance of passivity and helplessness and evasion (‘probably’).