radcliffian

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Of or pertaining to Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English pioneer of the Gothic novel.

"And yet the cause, necessarily to be assumed as the sole one assignable, is in its very realism as much charged with that prime element of Radcliffian romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise."

From Radcliffe + -ian.

more Radcliffian (comparative) most Radcliffian (superlative) Radcliffean (alternative)

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