Elizabethian
Adjective

Elizabethian

  1. Of or pertaining to Queen Elizabeth.
    • 1817 [1983], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
      Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: [...]
    • 1850 [1996], Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
      This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind.
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