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形容詞

Creonian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Creones.
   • 1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book IX”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], OCLC 1015428537, page 267:

     With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.

   • 1773, John Whitaker, The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted against Mr. Macpherson:

     They took possession of the Creonian dominions, in consequence of the laws and prescriptions of the country; as the Creones now assumed a new appellation from them, and were denominated, like them, Ar-gathel, iar-gael, or Ar-gyle.

   • 1833, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Sportsmen’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 375:

     Glengary, with part of his family, were returning in the steamer from a visit to some of their more Southron friends: they had passed through the Creonian Canal, and were within but a few miles of Fort William.

語源 2

Creon +‎ -ian

形容詞

Creonian (comparative more Creonian, superlative most Creonian)

1. Alternative form of Creonic
   • 1997, Kaarlo Tuori, Zenon Bankowski, & Jyrki Uusitalo, Law and Power: Critical and Socio-legal Essays, page 247:

     Antigone is an artist of logos while speaking for eros. This is not speech by paranoon, not speech by Creonian women. This is the speech of polis.

   • 2002, Stanley Corngold & Gerhard Richter, Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship:

     Insofar as it involves a Creonian site of authority, an ethics of a state, such as the Athenian democratic state, Lacan argued, indeed demands a beautiful, heroic, and dead Antigone.

   • 2012, Matthew Johnson, The Legacy of Marxism, →ISBN:

     In Sophoclean words, an Antigonian moment is manipulated to climb to power, and a Creonian moment is embraced to retain it, the revolutionary taking 'the heroic attitude of “Somebody has to do the dirty work, so let's do it!”'

   • 2015, Anna Lisa Tota & Trever Hagen, Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, →ISBN, page 186:

     We may call this the typical Creonian position. Creon exemplifies, in Sophocles' tragedy, the ruler (かつ victor in the civil war) who seeks to impose this exact view by prohibiting the burial of the leader of the losing side.