Crossword-Solution: VOLTAIREAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Voltairean | a. | Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VOLTAIREAN | anagram | VENATORIAL |
We have 3 clues for the answer “VOLTAIREAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| follower of Voltaire | 1 answer |
| À la the author of "Candide" | 1 answer |
| VOLTAIRE, follower of | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VOLTAIREAN (5)
His neck had always been so tightly compressed by a strangulation stock, that his cheeks pouched over it a little, and he held his head high; to many people this would have given an air of self-sufficiency, but in the Vidame it was justified by a Voltairean wit.
Moreover, he lived in a time of reaction; it was the period of the restored Bourbons, of the Voltairean King Louis XVIII, governing to please orthodoxy.
Four of the bells at the Cathedral of Versailles having been destroyed during the French Revolution, four new ones were baptized, on the 6th of January, 1824, the Voltairean King, Louis XVIII, and the pious Duchess d'Angouleme standing as sponsors.
She will toss her head, or gently shrug her white shoulders; she will gild an insignificant speech with a charming pout and smile; or throw a Voltairean epigram into an ‘Indeed!’ an ‘Ah!’ a ‘What then!’ A jerk of her head will be her most pertinent form of questioning; she will give meaning to the movement by which she twirls a vinaigrette hanging to her finger by a ring.
The old theory of imposture, the Voltairean theory of a ‘poor idiot,’ the vague charge of ‘hysteria,’ are untenable.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).