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Rousseau

[ US /ɹuˈsoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. French primitive painter (1844-1910)
  2. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)

How To Use Rousseau In A Sentence

  • This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1] herborized with the bunch of chick-weed whereon he fed his Canary; The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
  • the movement is philosophically indebted to Rousseau
  • The best of every bit that goes into making a wedding trousseau will be here at the exhibition, she assures.
  • Through his narrative of the illumination, Rousseau mythologized the violence of breaking this mold as the liberation of self through the experience of accident.
  • Before his illumination, Rousseau's thoughts had turned incessantly upon his relation to his fellow men.
  • his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau
  • In Rousseau's novel fainting is part of the construction of the figure of the woman of feeling as an object of male fantasy, which construction makes Julie either physically or mentally absent from almost all intense moments of sexual intimacy. Ildiko Csengei
  • Camilla was still carrying on a vast arrangement which she called the preparation of her trousseau, but which both Mrs French and Bella regarded as a spoliation of the domestic nest, for the proud purposes of one of the younger birds. He Knew He Was Right
  • By 1708, eighty French backwoodsmen lived in the Natchez villages, enjoying ample food supplies and local customs that enjoined premarital sex for profit on young women building their trousseaus.
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