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Definition of Euphuist

Euphuist
Euphuist Eu"phu*ist, 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.

Meaning of Euphuist from wikipedia

- Eup****sm is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated...
- Principles. Robertus Greene in Artibus Magister. T[homas] O[rwin]. ""Eup****sts" — an annotation to Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"". victorianweb...
- described her as "uniquely dreadful". Aldous Huxley compared her work to the Eup****st movement in Elizabethan literature: In Mrs Ros we see, as we see in the...
- 1581–90. p. 291. Heltzel, Virgil B. "Haly Heron: Elizabethan Essayist and Eup****st.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, 1952, pp. 1–21.,  This...
- impression upon the language, Lyly was a key figure of Eup****sm. Another Eup****st and pupil of John Florio was Stephen Gosson. Both Gosson and Lyly adopted...
- offered no difficulty to Sylvester, who was himself a disciple of the Eup****sts and added many adornments of his own invention. The Sepmaines of Du Bartas...