What is "voltairean"

Usage examples of "voltairean".

Without his knowing it, the style of his reports was sufficiently Voltairean to be readable.

Lydiat grew pale, but not, as might be supposed, on account of this unexpectedly Voltairean sally on the part of the shrinking little girl.

Contemporary with the economic historiography, there was a new intellectual criticism reminding one superficially of the Voltairean, but in reality founded far more on Darwinian ideas.

People fidgeted on their chairs and looked aside or downward, whenever his glance accidentally fell on them,--and to the analytical Voltairean mind of M.

The Voltairean attitudes that ruled in many noble households brought a greater sense of religious tolerance - which was just as well since, with all their foreign tutors and their peasant serfs, the palace could be home to several different faiths.

I am Voltairean here, in that my sights are indeed on this life, this side of the grave, and I contend that the renditions of death and dying in literature and art are food for the living.

Oddly, this was something he had in common with his Voltairean assailant, the alarmingly named Krysztof Waterford-Wajda, known as Dubdub, with whom he had in fact forged the most unlikely of friendships.

The leaders of the Voltaireans were two noblemen, named, respectively, Stroganoff and Schuvaloff.