Miltonic (mil-TON-ik) adjective, also Miltonian

  1. Of or pertaining to the poet Milton or his writings.

  2. Resembling Milton's majestic style.

[After John Milton (1608-1674).]

   "Siphoning off the grandeur of his Miltonic inspiration and transfusing
   it with foggily redundant obscenities, Lord-Wolff denatures evil into
   sniggering adolescent angst."
   Sybil Steinberg, Forecasts: Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Dec 20, 1999.

This week's theme: eponyms, or words coined after people's names.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the
dawn has come. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter,
painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

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