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Definition of Dickensian
1. Adjective. Of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions).
Definition of Dickensian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Charles Dickens or, especially, his writings. ¹
2. Adjective. Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty and social injustice and other aspects of Victorian England. ¹
3. Noun. A reader or scholar of Charles Dickens. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Dickensian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Inns of Old England: A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and by Charles George Harper (1906)
"dickensian inns, as treated of in this chapter, are those houses, other than the
inns of Pickwick, associated with Dickens personally, or through his novels ..."
2. The Book of the Homeless: (Le Livre Des Sans-foyer) by Edith Wharton (1916)
"And the office I entered was dickensian too. The dust of the Waterloo year lay
on the panes and frames of its windows; early Georgian grime clung to its ..."
3. The Bookman (1903)
"If so, how can it be dickensian? For Dickens was a humourist. ... He is haunted
by dickensian ghosts. Even "the old House" in the Prologue talks Dickens. ..."
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