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Pantagruelism

Meaning of "Pantagruelism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PANTAGRUELISM

ˌpæntəˈɡruːəlˌɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANTAGRUELISM

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pantagruelism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PANTAGRUELISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gargantua and Pantagruel

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things". Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and he applied it in inventing hundreds of new words in the text, some of which became part of the French language. Wordplay and risque humor abound in his writing.

Definition of Pantagruelism in the English dictionary

The definition of Pantagruelism in the dictionary is a form of satirical comedy that also has a serious purpose.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANTAGRUELISM

ableism · chloralism · connubialism · controversialism · ecumenicalism · elementalism · fallibilism · labialism · mongrelism · multilateralism · municipalism · novelism · officialism · oralism · pastoralism · possibilism · scripturalism · survivalism · theatricalism · ultraliberalism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANTAGRUELISM

Pantagruel · Pantagruelian · Pantagruelic · Pantagruelist · pantaleon · pantalets · pantaletted · pantalettes · pantalon · Pantalone · pantaloon · pantaloonery · pantaloons · pantdress · pantechnicon · Pantelleria · panter · Panth

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANTAGRUELISM

allelism · babelism · capitalism · cartelism · dithelism · dyothelism · evangelism · Fidelism · genteelism · journalism · Mendelism · metabolism · Monothelism · multiple allelism · obelism · parallelism · professionalism · televangelism · ureotelism · uricotelism

Synonyms and antonyms of Pantagruelism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANTAGRUELISM»

Discover the use of Pantagruelism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Pantagruelism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rabelais Carnival:
Pantagruelism is a "specific form and individuating property ... by means of which those who possess it never take in bad part any things whatever which they recognize as springing from a good, frank, loyal heart."45 In the Fourth Book's ...
Sam Kinser, 1990
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The Rabelais Encyclopedia
178 Pantagruelism sein de Rabelais (Paris: SEDES, 1957), rpt. in his Rabelais dans son enquete, vol. 1 (Paris: SEDES, 1983); Michael A. Screech, The Rabelaisian Marriage (London: Arnold, 1958). Francois Rigolot PANTAGRUELISM A term ...
Elizabeth A. Chesney, 2004
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The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre de Pantagruel
If si- The opposition between Pantagruelism and anti-Pantagruelism is played out between the hero and his imperfect vassal throughout the entire quest of the Tiers Livre. Pantagruel consistently interprets according to caritas and thus takes in ...
Edwin M. Duval, 1997
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Etudes rabelaisiennes
There is in fact a good deal of humor in this scene, arising from the fact that Epistemon interprets the definition of Pantagruelism (as he interprets the dying poet's last words themselves) literally, taking it to express not so much a moral principle ...
Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, 1983
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The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais
Pantagruelism or humanism of the middle way Imitation of Lucian, the Greek rhetor, already appears in those episodes of Pantagruel situated in “another world” (the resurrection of Epistémon, the trip round Pantagruel's mouth). It is less  ...
John O'Brien, 2011
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The Doctor, Etc
And, indeed, in his mature years he always declared that one of the reasons which had led him to reject the old humoral pathology was, that it did not include Pantagruelism, which, he insisted, depended neither upon heat or cold, moisture or ...
Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, 1865
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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
He himself seems to be referring to the moment in Rabelais in which we are told: “For in every soldier I detect that specific trait and individual quality that our ancestors used to call Pantagruelism; which assures me that they will never take in ...
Daniel Boyarin, 2009
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The British Quarterly Review
In this production, which saw the light under the title of ' The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, father of Panta- ' gruel, heretofore composed by the Abstractor of Quintessence ; a ' Book full of Pantagruelism,' the purpose of the author ...
Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, 1849
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The Quarterly Review (London)
This derivation accords perfectly with the definition of Pantagruelism in the new prologue to the fourth book : ' For my part,' he says, ' I am hale and good- humoured, thanks to a trifle of Pantagruelism, which, you must know, is a sort of high ...
‎1847
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Catholic World
But irreverence has nothing in common with that genial tendency which Southey has called pantagruelism, and the desirability of which he has advocated. For pantagruelism is not buffoonery, levity, cynical insensibility ; neither does it consist ...
‎1867
REFERENCE
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