Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Erewhon.
- noun An inhabitant of the fictional land of Erewhon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have put a bare outline of this theory (which I believe to be quite sound) into the mouth of an Erewhonian philosopher in Chapter XXVII. of this book.
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Unreason — a city whose Erewhonian name is so cacophonous that
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On the other hand, the Erewhonian system lends itself better to the suppression of that downrightness which it seems the express aim of Erewhonian philosophy to discountenance.
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Returning to Erewhonian customs in connection with death, there is one which I can hardly pass over.
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Erewhonian theory differs from our own, for the word
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Erewhonian ones, but the reader may rely on my general accuracy.
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Erewhonian position than I had done hitherto: nevertheless there were parts of the scheme of which I could not comprehend the fitness, although I fully admit that this inability was probably the result of my having been trained so very differently, and to my being then much out of sorts.
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So well is this understood, that a man must be a mere tyro in the arts of Erewhonian polite society, unless he instinctively suspects a hidden “yea” in every “nay” that meets him.
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Among foreign nations Erewhonian opinions may be still more clearly noted.
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I may say here that, since my return to England, I heard a friend playing some chords upon the organ which put me very forcibly in mind of the Erewhonian statues (for Erewhon is the name of the country upon which I was now entering).
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