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De Sade

noun

French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term 'sadism' (1740-1814). Synonyms: Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade, Sade.

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... obdurate mistress; and those are equally mistaken who consider him as the poetical votarist of an imaginary fair one. I know but little, even of the little that is known of his life; for I remember being as much terrified by the ponderous quartos of the Abbe de Sade, as I was discomfited and disappointed by the flimsy octavo of Mrs. Dobson. I am now studying Petrarch in his own works; and it seemeth to me, in my simple wit, that such exquisite touches of truth and nature, such depth and purity of feeling, such ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

... De Sade get fifty sequins. When I was at Florence, you know all his clothes were in pawn to his landlord; but he redeemed them by pawning his Modenese bill of credit to his landlady! I delight in the style of the neutrality maker(708)-his ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

Words linked to "De Sade" : Marquis de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, writer, author, Sade