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  • adjective Of or relating to Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), one of the founders of modern geology, who proposed the Devonian and Cambrian periods.
  • adjective Of or relating to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009), American writer on gender studies, queer theory, and critical theory.

Etymologies

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Sedgwick +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • But Nate's cipherhood also frees up the Nate-Blair-Serena triangle to be explicitly Sedgwickian or perhaps I should say Castleian.

    Now I Get It Becca 2008

  • But Nate's cipherhood also frees up the Nate-Blair-Serena triangle to be explicitly Sedgwickian or perhaps I should say Castleian.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Becca 2008

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