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What does Johnsonian mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.
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He is severe in judgment and spells rigidly by the Johnsonian standard.
In this, of course, he is following Hume, though he applies the Johnsonian argument to Berkeley's immaterialism.
The work will doubtless be received as a valuable complement to our Johnsonian literature.
The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed.
It is then that one cannot help regretting the Johnsonian black cap.
The manner would have been Johnsonian, if not the sentiment.

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