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Dean Swift   /din swɪft/   Listen
Dean Swift

noun
1.
An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745).  Synonyms: Jonathan Swift, Swift.





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... Rabelais is undoubtedly Dean Swift. We probably never should have had "Gulliver's Travels" from Swift, if we had not first had Gargantua and Pantagruel from Rabelais. Swift, however, differs from Rabelais as well as resembles him. Whereas Rabelais is simply monstrous in invention, Swift ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson


Words linked to "Dean Swift" :   Jonathan Swift, swift, ironist, ridiculer, satirist


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