Citations:learnèd

English citations of learnèd

1. Alternative spelling of learned.
   • 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.

   • 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…

   • 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. […]

   • 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)…