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antiromance

noun

Etymology

From anti- + romance.

  1. derived from rōmānicus
  2. derived from rōmānicē
  3. derived from rōmānicē
  4. derived from romanz
  5. inherited from romauns
  6. prefixed as antiromance — “anti + romance”

Definitions

  1. A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.

    • Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA