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Spencerian

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Spen·ce·ri·an 1  (spn-sîr-n)
adj.
Of or relating to Herbert Spencer or his philosophy.
n.
A follower of Herbert Spencer.
Spen·ce·ri·an 2  (spn-sîr-n)
adj.
Of or relating to an ornate style of writing employing rounded letters slanted to the right.
[After Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864), American handwriting expert.]
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The Spencerian stanza, with its rich variety of movement and its harmonious closes, long shut "Childe Harold" from me, and whenever I found a poem in any book which did not rhyme its second line with its first I read it unwillingly or not at all.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
He was a Spencerian like you till Kreis turned him to materialistic monism.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
It was rumored that Miss Maxwell "wrote," which word, when uttered in a certain tone, was understood to mean not that a person had command of penmanship, Spencerian or otherwise, but that she had appeared in print.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
 
 
 
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