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Spencerian
1[ spen-seer-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a follower of Herbert Spencer.
Spencerian
2[ spen-seer-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Spencerian1
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Example Sentences
I allude, of course, to the establishment of the Spencerian Theory of Morals, which has made a new era in philosophy.
At the tail end of an article it is, of course, impossible to discuss the grounds or results of the Spencerian philosophy.
We had thus two epochs in our school, the Ciceronian and the Spencerian periods.
Any line of his writing was as neatly molded as Spencerian copy.
That the Spencerian abstraction should have been taken as a substitute for deity proves how desperate the situation is.
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