Bunyanian

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Bunyan +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

Bunyanian (comparative more Bunyanian, superlative most Bunyanian)

  1. Of or relating to John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Christian writer and preacher, best known for his allegorical book The Pilgrim's Progress.
    • 1867, George Gilfillan, Remoter Stars in the Church Sky: Being a Gallery of Uncelebrated Divines:
      And let us say of them, once for all, that, although not profound, neither were they shallow in thought, not metaphysical or imaginative, they were sufficiently suggestive, very scriptural, and charmingly child-like and Bunyanian in spirit and in style, and if never florid in language they were always fervid in spirit.