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- adjective Of or pertaining to Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468), inventor of the European technology of printing with movable type.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then again, you might dare an act of Gutenbergian anachronism, and buy a copy of the paperback — vetted, edited, proofed, indexed.
Gutenberg Is Dead; Long Live Gutenberg - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Then again, you might dare an act of Gutenbergian anachronism, and buy a copy of the paperback — vetted, edited, proofed, indexed.
Gutenberg Is Dead; Long Live Gutenberg - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Television, a flickering gray toy at the beginning of the decade, grew to dominate the average man's day and to alter his attention span, yet the '50s adults had grown up in a Gutenbergian universe, and literature was exalted as it would not be again.
The '50S 2008
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Nicholson Baker, the lofty author of The Mezzanine, called it "an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorisation".
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Nicholson Baker, the lofty author of The Mezzanine, called it "an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorisation".
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He's great, but he's got me convinced I'm a hopeless Gutenbergian.
unknown title 2008
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