littréan
/lɪtˈɹeɪən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Émile Littré (1801–1881), French philosopher and lexicographer best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française.
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps we shall find, or our successors will find, that there has been side by side with much hindrance traceable to the Littréan school a considerable amount of preparatory work done by it."
- "Perrin’s synthesis of Enlightenment scientism, Littréan aesthetics, revolutionary camaraderie, all tinged by the Marxian hope of liberation from Entfremdung, could not be more than a secular religion based on science."
- "Bensaude-Vincent, in “Atomism and Positivism,” rightly insists on the multiplicity of “positivisms” in France. She disinguishes Comte’s own ideas, which were surprisingly receptive to the heuristic use of hypotheses, from Baconian inductivism. She also distinguishes Littréan positivism, “textbook positivism,” and the “positivist vulgate.”"
Etymology
From French Littré + English -an.