Parnassian Definition

pär-năsē-ən
noun
A member of a school of 19th cent. French poets concerned with form primarily.
Webster's New World

(zoology) Any of numerous species of butterfly in the genus Parnassius.

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(rare) A poet.

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A French poet of the Parnassianism movement.

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adjective
Of Mount Parnassus.
Webster's New World
Of the art of poetry.
Webster's New World
Of the Parnassians.
Webster's New World
From Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings: describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.
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Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment.

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Noun

Singular:
Parnassian
Plural:
parnassians

Origin of Parnassian

  • French parnassien after Le Parnasse contemporain (“The Contemporary Parnassus”), the group's first anthology of poetry (1866) after Parnasse Parnassus (considered sacred to Apollo and the Muses) from Latin Parnassus from Greek Parnāsos Adj., from Latin Parnassius of Parnassus from Greek parnāsios from Parnāsos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Parnassian Sentence Examples

  • The northern Doris, for example, spoke Aeolic, while Elis, Phocis, and many non-Dorian districts of north-west Greece spoke dialects akin to Doric. Many Dorian states had additional " nonDorian tribes "; Sparta, which claimed to be of pure and typical Dorian origin, maintained institutions and a mode of life which were without parallel in Peloponnese, in the Parnassian and in the Asiatic Doris, and were partially reflected in Crete only.

  • This represents the Argive Dorians as having come by sea (apparently from the Maliac Gulf, the nearest seashore to Parnassian Doris), accompanied by survivors of the Dryopes (former inhabitants of that Doris), whose traces in south Euboea (Styra and Carystus), in Cythnus, and at Eion (Halieis), Hermione and Asine in Argolis, were held to indicate their probable route.

  • The steady dependence of Sparta on the Delphic oracle, for example, is best explained as an observance inherited from Parnassian ancestors.

  • Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

  • This review, which owed much of its success to Waller's energy, defended the intense preoccupation of the new writers with questions of style, and became the depository of the Parnassian tradition in Belgium.

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