Grandison is a comical rather than a courtly figure to this generation; and the man whose manners may be described as Grandisonian is usually called. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"] Reference
Grandisonian airs marked with a suspicion of fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
The Grandisonian manners are not to be taken as a picture of contemporary fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
The hero is the son of Henry II. and Fair Rosamond, but his speech is Grandisonian. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
If in the Grandisonian day the morals were wanting, it was something to have the manners. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"] Reference
They are undeniably different, and the later figure is wholly free from Grandisonian elegance and elaboration. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"] Reference
At Niagara I finally took leave of the Walrences, as I had many visits to pay, and near midnight left for Hamilton, under the escort of a very kind, but very Grandisonian Scotch gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Grandisonian. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Grandisonian bow. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
"I knew them all," he says -- "The father, upright, handsome, distantly courteous, white-haired, tall; knowing me as his son's friend, he would treat me in the Grandisonian fashion, coming himself down to the little inn to invite me, a boy, up to his house, where I would be coldly uncomfortable until I could escape with. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
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