carlylese

carlylese
\(|)kärˌlī|lēz, -ȧˌl-, -ēs, kärˈlīˌl-, kȧˈl-; kə(r)|lī|l-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Thomas Carlyle + English -ese
: Carlylean use of language — often used of style imitative of Carlyle's literary excesses

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Carlylese /kär-līl-ēzˈ/
noun
The vigorous, irregular phraseology and vocabulary of the essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
Carlylesqueˈ or Carlylˈean adjective
Carˈlylism (or /-līlˈ/) noun

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