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  • adjective Of or pertaining to William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist.

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Cowper +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Cowperian descriptions, good as they are, but closely interwoven with and expository of human thought and feeling -- had long been dear to him.

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

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