voltarian

Updated: May 17, 2025

Then Aunt Becky visited the gaols, and had a knack of picking up the worst characters there, and had generally two or three discharged felons on her hands. Some people said she was a bit of a Voltarian, but unjustly; for though she now and then came out with a bouncing social paradox, she was a good bitter Church-woman.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard

All that is deepest and most profound is to be found in this modern German philosophy, which is diametrically opposed to the flippant and sensual philosophy of the Voltarian school.

Georgina Pell Curtis - The Interdependence of Literature