‖ lues Boswelliana
(ˈl(j)uːiːz bɒzwɛlɪˈeɪnə, -ˈɑːnə)
[f. lues: cf. Boswellian a., -iana.]
A disease of admiration; a biographer's tendency to magnify his subject.
| 1834 Macaulay in Edin. Rev. Jan. 508 Biographers, translators, editors,—all, in short, who employ themselves in illustrating the lives or the writings of others, are peculiarly exposed to the Lues Boswellianæ, or disease of admiration. 1928 [see furor 4]. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 765/3 Though he decidedly comes to praise Caesar, not to bury him, he avoids any excessive lues Boswelliana. |