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JOHNSONESE \jon' so-nez\, (n.):
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson (English, 1709-1784), or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist and lexicographer; the author of the Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Poets; an editor and commentator on Shakespeare's Plays; one of England's leading literary figures in the eighteenth century.