Meaning of Aeolism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
   uncountable
2. The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.
   uncountable
3. A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments.
   broadly, uncountable
4. A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.
   countable
5. A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.
   countable

Examples

“This approach, however, of Aeolians to Ionians is ambiguous and accidental, and historical indications go far to show that their distinction was all but primitive; that Dorism developed independently from an Aeolism with which Ionism was already in marked contrast, at some point of earlier departure, rather than that Ionism and Dorism together were collateral shoots from an original main Aeolic stem.”

“It should be remarked that Aeolism in Homer is seen not so much in a general modification of the Ionic dialect, as in the occasional employment of the forms and flexions regarded as characteristic of the Aeolic.”

“Cassola regards the short form as an Aeolism (cf. Chantraine I, 161-3), which from an epic point of view would be an archaism.”

“This ending may also be considered a mere Ionism or an Aeolism.”

“Of course Aeolism is only a satirical invention, but it has a general application to all absurd philosophising (also to 'common sense' - a terrifying twist, this, uniquely Swiftian).”

“Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises.”

“After the pipes have their final victory over the Aeolistic William, Peter Stuyvesant comes to the head of the state. His measures against Aeolism are swift: he gives his councilors "abundance of fair long pipes" (p. 248) and makes "a hideous rout among the ingenious inventions and expedients of his learned predecessor -- demolishing his flag-staffs and wind-mills" (pp. 248-249).”

“Participant scores on one of the five personality traits, “Aeolism,” were consistently described as low compared with the other group members in all conditions.”

“'Aeolisms abound in the course of the episode; 'big blow out,' 'the vent of his jacket,' 'windfall when he kicks out,' etc."”

“Examines features of Homeric language, especially the question of aeolisms and fixed epithets, and concludes that some Homeric words were preserved from the Mycenaean age as a result of oral epic technique, a conclusion later supported by decipherment of Linear B.”

“In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones.”

“After them we have the minor climatic characteristics (texture, irrigation, vegetation, aeolism), namely those determined by the atmosphere, which thus forms the intermediary between the major and minor features.”

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