promethean
Speech parts
1. promethean - Noun
2. promethean - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.
Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
An apparatus for automatic ignition.
A kind of lucifer match.
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive They sparkle still the right Promethean fire They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
Ah! what fury! alas! mankind, alas! dread Promethean skill!
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Brown's body, which was placed in a Promethean casket–which is bronze polished to a golden shine–was driven through the streets of New York to the Apollo Theater in a white, glass-encased horse-drawn carriage.