Meaning of tragelaphic | Babel Free

Definitions

Hybrid; neither fish nor fowl.

not-comparable, uncommon

Examples

“And he who has ever felt what it means in our present⟳ tragelaphic humanity to find⟳ a harmonious being, swinging on his own⟳ axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand⟳ my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer.”

“[…] I have⟳ composed a tragelaphic sort⟳ of work⟳, partly a work⟳ of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches.”

“Those eager to compare⟳ Byzantium with the glory of ancient Greece to the detriment of the former might find⟳ in Gregoras’ self-portrayal as a modern Leonidas a tragelaphic mixture of Byzantine rhetorical exaggeration and unintentional self-parody.”

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