wilkinsonian
/ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, or to the Society of Universal Friends.
adj
Pertaining to any of a large number of other people with the surname Wilkinson,
Example Sentences
- "She began to preach, announcing herself as "the Publick Universal Friend," and soon [...succeeded] in organizing groups of Wilkinsonian celibates at New Milford, Conn., and at East Greenwich and South Kingston, R.I."
- "J. Hagadorn Wells, who was born in Kingston (Little Rest) in 1817, recalled in his reminiscences, recorded in 1897: "[…] more than once I joined a raiding party of young fellows, to ransack the empty apartments, scare up the ghosts of generations of rural gentry and Wilkinsonian saints, dead; but never omitting a less romantic visit to the pear trees.""
- "Moreover, not every resident of Jerusalem was a devoted Universal Friend; […] Even so, Wilkinson appeared to be making inroads. Historians have missed this Wilkinsonian renaissance, perhaps because they have been influenced by the repeated insistence of anti-Wilkinsonians that her influence was in decline […]"
- "A retreat was not to be thought of, and in case any craven spirit should exist amongst the four thousand, (save one,) breasts animated with Wilkinsonian ardour, (perhaps as James has it "as an additional stimulus to glory") a picked man was […]"
- "I have a Wilkinsonian admiration for T. F. Powys, ranking him in English literature with Bunyan, Swift and Blake."
- "Even today, despite the experience of the Cold War, despite Kissinger's strictly un-idealistic balance-of-power diplomacy, it must be said that it is not the Wilkinsonian viewpoint which dominates British opinion at large but, however modified, […]"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
- British English: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/