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Definition of Favonian
1. a. Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
Definition of Favonian
1. Adjective. pertaining to the west wind; mild, gentle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Favonian
1. pertaining to the west wind [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Favonian
Literary usage of Favonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... For other causes I forbore to soothe i55 Their fury to favonian gentleness;
I could and would not; (thus I wake in him [Aside. A love of magic art. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"It is altogether a very light and bland favonian breeze.—CRAIK, GEORGE L., 1861,
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, ..."
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