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from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or resembling James Boswell, the friend and biographer of Dr. Johnson; characterized by an uncritical and simple admiration for some person: used especially of biographers and biography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, whose hero worship made his narrative a faithful but often uncritical record of details.
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