Voltaireanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Voltaire +‎ -an

形容詞

Voltairean (comparative more Voltairean, superlative most Voltairean)

1. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778; pen name "Voltaire"), French writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and defence of civil liberties.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:

     "What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,

     […] the skinny boy at the next table smirked with a thin Voltairian sneer.

名詞

Voltairean (複数形 Voltaireans)

1. (philosophy) A person who subscribes to the philosophy of Voltaire.
   • 1855, Richard Francis Burton, A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, London: Tylston & Edwards, 1893, Volume I, Chapter II, p. 21,^[1]

     Then hearing that I was a Darwaysh and doctor—he must be an Osmanli Voltairean, that little Turk—the official snorted a contemptuous snort.

   • 1922, G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Chapter 3,^[2]

     “ […] But as for saints and relics and things, I fear I'm a bit of a Voltairian; what you would call a skeptic.”

アナグラム

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