erewhonianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɛɹɪˈ(h)wəʊ.ni.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)woʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)wɑ.ni.ən/
• 韻: -əʊniən, -ɑniən

形容詞

Erewhonian (comparative more Erewhonian, superlative most Erewhonian)

1. Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Erewhon.
   • 1969, Miriam Strauss Weiss, A Lively Corpse, page 334:

     This seems to be the customary Erewhonian approach to a problem, this time the problem of the incorporeality of God.

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella.

   • 2003, Farhat Iftekharuddin, Joseph Boyden, Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story, page 139:

     The four chapters of Davenport's work generally follow the same scheme. Adriaan calls section one "An Erewhonian Sketchbook" and uses a Napoleonic rather than a Gregorian calendar redesignating the months Messidor (July), Thermidor (August), and Fructidor (September).

   • 2008, H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law, page 52:

     Those opposed to the Erewhonian programme are apt to object that it disregards moral guilt as a necessary condition of a just punishment and thus leads to a condition in which any person may be sacrificed to the welfare of society.

   • 2015, Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, page 91:

     The Erewhonian conflation of mechanical energy and capitalist value extends to their attitude toward machinery.

名詞

Erewhonian (plural Erewhonians)

1. An inhabitant of the fictional land of Erewhon.
   • 2004, Laraine Anne Barker, The Obsidian Quest, page 101:

     I've never heard of him. What sort of name is that for an Erewhonian?

   • 2009, Alexander Raju, The Haunted Man: A Novel, page 18:

     If so, my own history itself is the history of an average Erewhonian!

   • 2017, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Macrobiotics (1715-2017):

     If an Erewhonian plays his role as a martyr with a smile, it is through metaphysical agility.