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Of, relating to or having the characteristics of a certain English poet.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The subjects are frequently tender or sad, sometimes morbid -- in short, Byronic.
  • He seemed a kind of Byronic hero to me, even more in the movie than the book.
  • Significantly it was "Byronic", some 10 years before Byron actually adopted it himself.
  • John W. Nowak's Rescue Rangers stories, mainly about Gadget Hackwrench and her "Byronic" sister Widget, are particularly good!
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