What's the difference between oxonian and oxygenian?

Oxonian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
  • (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
  • (2) Oxonian Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar but intelligence can be counter-productive, if not dangerous, when it comes with a lack of empathy and compassion for other human beings and our natural living environment.
  • (3) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
  • (4) Only someone living in a dreaming Oxonian spire could be unaware of how badly this has turned out, despite the best efforts of thousands of hard-working teachers.

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