Word Meanings - FINDESIECLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lit., end of the century; -- mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; "up-to-date;" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.

• Modernizer
  One who modernizes.
• Closefisted
  Covetous; niggardly.
• Englishable
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• Englishism
  A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.
• Modernly
  In modern times.
• Closehanded
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.
• Englishmen
  of Englishman
• Modernness
  The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
• Adjectively
  In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
• Closehauled
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• Englishman
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• Englishry
  The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
• Signifying
  of Signify
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Closemouthed
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• Englishwomen
  of Englishwoman

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