Definition of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1. Noun. German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781).

Exact synonyms: Lessing
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gothicizing
Gothick
Gothicky
Gothicness
Gothics
Gothlike
Gothlin's test
Goths
Gotland
Gotlander
Gotlanders
Gott in Himmel
Gotterdammerung
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (current term)
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottron's patches
Gottron's sign
Gouda
Gouda cheese
Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome
Gougerot-Sjogren disease
Gougerot and Blum disease
Gough
Goulard's extract
Gould
Gould-Jacobs reaction
Gouley's catheter

Literary usage of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Anthology of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781. The earliest writings of Lessing, consisting of songs, anacreon- tic verses, epigrams, fables, and prose comedies, ..."

2. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1886)
"CHAPTER V. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.1 LESSING, the most brilliant son of the German Illumination, was also the first to overstep its limits. ..."

3. The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of by Alexander Ireland (1884)
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. 1729—1781. "Yes," said Goethe ; "Lessing himself said, that if God would give him truth, he would decline the gift, and prefer the ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"Vols. Leipzig,-71. 2. Lessing. By James Sime. 2 Vols. London,. 3. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. His Life and Works. By Helen Zimmern. London,. 4. ..."

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