Byronic

Byronic
Byronically, adv.Byronism /buy"reuh niz'euhm/, n.
/buy ron"ik/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to Lord Byron.
2. possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, esp. romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.
[1815-25; BYRON + -IC]

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