"Bellovian" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more Bellovian [comparative], most Bellovian [superlative]
Etymology: From Bellow + -ian. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Bellow|ian}} Bellow + -ian Head templates: {{en-adj}} Bellovian (comparative more Bellovian, superlative most Bellovian)
  1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of, American writer Saul Bellow (1915–2005).
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          "text": "The obvious dangers inherent in the Nietzchean^([sic]) view of the superman in love with his fate we are by now well aware of; but let us take stock of the danger implicit in the Bellovian view, which is the debasement of the ideal of good-will into the blind alley of a mindless acquiescence.",
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