Elizabethan
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- noun
- /ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθən/
:
elizabethano
- Yet there are some inevitable differences between Elizabethan and Jacobean plague politics, as during his accession, English society understood James I, a Scottish monarch, as a foreign body visiting with the plague.
Examples
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Greenblatt must allow Machiavelli at least as great a capacity for duplicity as he grants to an obscure Elizabethan like Richard Baines.
Academic text (1993) -
What if Shakespearean literature had died in the Elizabethan era, and that was all there was to Shakespeare—Elizabethans speaking to Elizabethans about things Elizabethan?
Academic text (1998) -
But perhaps a bit more Tudor in feeling, Elizabethan.
Fiction book (1996) -
Consequently, Catholics in Elizabethan and early Stuart England had a far from happy time.
Blog text (31) -
Or was it common knowledge (at least for learned persons) in Elizabethan and Jacobean England that there was a curse on Timur's grave?
Blog text (7) -
Though the manor itself was Elizabethan, the first Baron Jocelyn had brought it into the eighteenth century by giving the exterior a Palladian facing.
Fiction book (1990) -
Metamorphosis, his most defiant work, represents the erudite summation of his interaction with the world while it offers a keen view of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Academic text (1997) -
Besides employing food images to dehumanize mankind, Gongora uses such images to satirize the didacticism of mythological tales in the same way that Elizabethan and Jacobean writing parodies mythology.
Academic text (1990) -
Nevertheless, if Shakespeare can't be hauled into service as the champion of, say, cross-dressing or bisexuality, recent scholarship would seem to have little interest in him, especially since this poor unenlightened Elizabethan continues to remain oddly apathetic regarding the pressing problems of our time.
Academic text (1999) -
The playwright William Shakespeare is one of the most famous figures of the Elizabethan era.
Compounds
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A period in English history under Queen Elizabeth I when writing and plays become very famous
A period of English history during Queen Elizabeth I's rule when literature and drama flourished
- Specialized
A cone-shaped collar put around a pet's neck to stop it licking or scratching wounds
- Literature
A 14-line poem with three four-line parts and a final two-line part with a regular rhyme pattern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Elizabethan = Elizabeth (transparent) = Elizabeth + an
Formed by adding the adjectival/demonymic suffix '-an' to the proper name Elizabeth, directly indicating relation to Elizabeth I.
Etymology
Elizabethan comes from the name Elizabeth and the ending -an, which means 'from' or 'belonging to', like in Victorian or American. So an Elizabethan is a person who lived during the time of Queen Elizabeth I.