Citations:learnèd


 * 1) Alternative spelling of learned.
 * 2) * 1941: Alfred Einstein, Greatness in Music, p148
 * It would be naïve to believe that Haydn did not know what he was doing — the same Haydn who wrote on the margin of a contrapuntal passage in one of his manuscripts: ‘This is for all-too-learnèd ears.’ Haydn’s originality lay in his artistic intelligence and in his courage.
 * 1) * 1964: Sezione Germanica, Annali, p113
 * Much of Woodhouse’s verbal humor involves play with lexical items and their semantic fields. He often uses terms out of their normal contexts, especially learnèd terms in non-learnèd environments, as when he says of Sir Aylmer Bostock (Uncle Dynamite, ch. 6): “Plainly, he was unwilling to relinquish his memories of a…
 * 1) * 1997: Giacomo Leopardi, Leopardi: Selected Poems, p75
 * […] Our learnèd men — whose bad luck
 * Was to be born in times like these —
 * Flatter your foolishness in public,
 * Even if sometimes, among themselves,
 * They make a laughingstock of you. […]
 * 1) * 2014: Martin Maiden, A Linguistic History of Italian
 * Much of the learnèd vocabulary of Italian, i.e., words introduced into the language by an educated elite, is of Latin origin (Classical Greek is another major source)…