Timonian

Meaning

1. Of or relating to the French Catholic Sacred Heart congregation founded by Joseph-Marie Timon-David.
2. Of or relating to Skeptic philosopher Timon of Phlius, his life, works, style, or ideas.
3. Of a form of bitter misanthropy relating to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
4. A member of the French Catholic Sacred Heart congregation founded by Joseph-Marie Timon-David.

Etymology / origin

From Timon + -ian, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by poet John Langhorne in his translation of Plutarch's Lives (1777).

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