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Definition of Pre-Raphaelite
1. Noun. A painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals.
Specialized synonyms: Holman Hunt, Hunt, William Holman Hunt, Millais, Sir John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites. "The Pre-Raphaelite painters"
Definition of Pre-Raphaelite
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of preraphaelite) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of preraphaelite) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pre-Raphaelite
Literary usage of Pre-Raphaelite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters. Edited, by W. M, Rossetti. London: Hurst and
Blackett, 1900. 5. Ford Madox Brown: a record of his Life and Work. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Art and literature were never more closely allied than in the Pre- Raphaelite
Brotherhood. For a short time in 1850 the Brotherhood had ..."
3. Art in Great Britain and Ireland by Walter Armstrong (1909)
"In 1848 seven young men bound themselves together in a society to which they gave
the name of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. They were Dante Gabriel ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... and her sad face became the type of a certain anaemic ideal of pre-Raphaelite
female beauty. Her health was never good, and about 1852 she was ..."
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