Terms vs Jeremitaylorically - What's the difference?
terms | jeremitaylorically |
(nonce) Like or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.
* 1818 , Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
* 1960 , Frank Percy Wilson, Seventeenth Century Prose
As a noun terms
is .As an adverb jeremitaylorically is
(nonce) like or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.jeremitaylorically
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He sate with "his eye in a fine frenzy rolling," and turned his inspired gaze on Marionetta as if she had been the ghastly ladie of a magical vision; then placed his hand before his eyes, with an appearance of manifest pain — shook his head — withdrew his hand — rubbed his eyes, like a waking man — and said, in a tone of ruefulness most jeremitaylorically pathetic, "To what am I to attribute this very unexpected pleasure, my dear Miss O'Carroll?"
- I find his beauties cloying and his style too jeremitaylorically purple.
