antiromance

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antiromance

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From anti- + romance.

noun antiromances

A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form. Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]

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@misc{antiromance_2026,
  title = {antiromance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/antiromance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}