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Nietzschean

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FromNietzsche +‎-ean.

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Nietzschean (comparativemoreNietzschean,superlativemostNietzschean)

  1. Of, pertaining to or characteristic ofFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, or his writings.
    • 1908 September –1909 September,Jack London,Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company, published September 1909,→OCLC:
      He could never cross it and explain to them his position,—theNietzschean position, in regard to socialism.
    • 1912 (date written),[George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Sequel: What Happened Afterwards.”, inAndrocles and the Lion,Overruled, Pygmalion, London:Constable and Company, published1916,→OCLC,page196:
      Rejected by the middle class, which he loathed, he had shot up at once into the highest circles by his wit, his dustmanship (which he carried like a banner), and hisNietzschean transcendence of good and evil.
    • 1917,Upton Sinclair,The Profits of Religion […] ‎[1]:
      There are theNietzschean Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves to the Superman, and the art-for-art's-sake, neo-Pagan Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves down to the Ape.
    • 1917,Winston Churchill,The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company,page341:
      A half-burned cigar rolled between his mobile lips, he sat on the back of his neck, and yet he had an air Napoleonic;Nietzschean, it might better be said—although it is safe to assert that these moulders of American institutions knew little about that terrible philosopher who had raised his voice against the “slave morals of Christianity.”
    • 1921,Joseph Conrad, “The Crime of Partition”, inNotes on Life & Letters‎[2], London: J. M. Dent & Sons,pages165–166:
      The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian,Nietzschean, warlike, pious, cynical, inspired, what they were going to do to the inferior races of the earth, so full of sin and all unworthiness.
    • 1952 May,George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, inThe Atlantic‎[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group,→ISSN,→OCLC:
      Yet they did not preach a racial war on the Jewish foundations of Christianity, nor propose to saddle aNietzschean morality on peaceful lands like Austria, Bavaria, and the Rhineland that were traditionally Catholic.
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pertaining to Nietzsche or his writings

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Nietzschean (pluralNietzscheans)

  1. A supporter of the ideas ofFriedrich Nietzsche.

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a supporter of Nietzsche's ideas
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