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Stylistic   /staɪlˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Stylistic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to style (especially in the use of language).





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"Stylistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rachel had drawn from concealment under the Chesterfield, and which was now loaded. Mrs. Maldon employed an old and valued charwoman in the mornings. Rachel accomplished all the rest of the housework herself, including cookery, and she accomplished it with the stylistic smartness of a ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... the diction is elaborately intricate, rhetorically indistinct. We find the same stylistic involution in these lines ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... From this and other subjective evidence already advanced I date the composition of both of these plays in 1591, and in doing so conform to the chronological conclusions reached by authoritative text critics whose judgments have been formed altogether upon textual and stylistic grounds. ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... In a stylistic sense Mr. Sturge Moore has accomplished a feat in reconstruction, whatever opinions may be held of A Florentine Tragedy by Wilde's admirers or detractors. The achievement is particularly remarkable because Mr. Sturge Moore has nothing in common with Wilde other ...
— A Florentine Tragedy—A Fragment • Oscar Wilde
... to speak of obscure thought: it is language, the medium, which makes the trouble when there is any. His thought, allowing for the fantasticality of his humor in certain moods, is never muddled or unorganized: it is sane, consistent and worthy of attention. To say this, is still to regret the stylistic vagaries. ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Stylistic" :   style, rhetorical


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