[a. F. titanisme (? a. 1825 in Littré): see -ISM.] The character of a Titan. a. Revolt against the order of the universe. b. Titanic force or power.
1867. M. Arnold, Celtic Lit., Wks. 1903, V. 126. Titanism as we see it in Byron.
1887. Athenæum, 29 Oct., 566. Their dignity of expression, their melancholy Titanism of feeling.
1900. Q. Rev., July, 128. Echoes of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism, of Nietzsche’s Titanism. Ibid. (1902), Oct., 369. He has a good deal that is fanciful to say of the Celtic Titanism with its ‘indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact.’
1904. G. S. Hall, Adolescence, xi. II. 123. The soul is filled with a Titanism that would achieve a vita nuova upon a higher plateau, where the music of humanity is no longer sad but triumphant.
