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An admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works
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shavian
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Shavian (foaled 31 March 1987) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . He showed his best form over one mile and usually ran his races from the front. As a two-year-old in 1989 he showed promising form, winning the second of his two starts. In the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, "in the style or manner of George Bernard Shaw " (1856-1950), from Latinized form of his name. An earlier form was Shawian (1894).
Usage examples of shavian.
Glamdrul Feynt was on his way to keep a very important, and secret, appointment with Deputy Enforcer Bormas Tyle, and with Shavian Bossit, Lord Maintainer of the Household.
The perfect picture of conspirators, Shavian thought, shaking his head at them warningly.
And then Lees Obol, with Shavian Bossit to take his place as Protector of Manthree votes in the council guaranteed: Bormas, Glamdrul, and his ownand the assembly already primed to vote for him.
But the average representative of them undoubtedly treats the Shavian meaning as tricky and complex, when it is really direct and offensive.
One of the best thrusts in all the Shavian fencing matches is that which occurs when Richard Dudgeon, condemned to be hanged, asks rhetorically why he cannot be shot like a soldier.
Bret Harte preaching the usual Shavian evangel, has no more relation to Irish life than it has to literature.
But Shaw, who knew better than the Shavians, was at this moment on the very eve of confessing his moral origin.