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Of or pertaining to Hitchcock; characterized by Hitchcock.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Hitchcockian

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In this horrifying 'Silence of the Lambs', director Jonathan Demme straddles the old and the new, taking a gruesome plot and filming it with Hitchcockian discretion and taste.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - Hitchcockian

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This is a neologism by derivation. The affixation of the suffix -ian to the proper name 'Hitchcock' creates the neologism 'Hitchcockian'. Through this affixation, a change of grammatical category occurred whereby the noun 'Hitchcock' became an adjective 'Hitchcockian'.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Hitchcockian

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In the Oxford English Dictionary (1989 ed., Vol. 7), the suffix -ian means "of or belonging to" (p. 593).  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Hitchcockian

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Sir Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, U.S. film and television director and producer.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Hitchcockian

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