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Euphuist   Listen
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Euphuist  n.  One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.






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"Euphuist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bayard, and the Frenchman need not be displeasured by the comparison. But when you come to read his poetry you find that our Bayard had in him a strong dash of the pedant and a powerful leaven of the euphuist. Subtle, delicate, refined, with a keen and curious wit, a rare faculty of verse, a singular capacity of expression, an active but not always a true sense of form, he wrote for the few, and (it may be) the few will always ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... of Scott's Euphuist, Sir Piercie Shafton, who, if I remember aright, uses some of these very phrases, in which Shakespeare has beaten Lilly at his own weapons, and made his affected phraseology the vehicle of the touching utterance of real feeling. "Euphues" was published in 1580, when Shakespeare was only ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various



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