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- adjective Of or relating to John Donne (1572–1631),
English poet ,satirist ,lawyer , andpriest .
Etymologies
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Donne + -an
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Examples
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And in wanting to matter, he now occupies a Donnean islet, obsessing over what others write about him on the Internet, reproducing the emails, basking in them like a masochist.
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See Ronsard, Shakespeare, &c.; but the close is Donnean.
Notes: Love Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921
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Now as it happens, bones are a rather Donnean obsession and, sitting in the car, I had a sudden inspiration and ran up to my study to write one of the book's love scenes.
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