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FAUSTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Faustian mean?
• FAUSTIAN (adjective)
The adjective FAUSTIAN has 1 sense:
1. pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values
Familiarity information: FAUSTIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
a Faustian pact with the Devil
Pertainym:
Faust (an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge)
Derivation:
Faust (an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge)
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