Ejusdem Generis Quotes

His language blends well with conflicting arrogance. David Herbert Lawrence was one writer who convinced me of the need for being plisky towards eliciting rather lightly, literature’s ponderous values. And his very intriguing oeuvre – ejusdem generis – leveraging on myrmidons’ intrinsic perceptions, is reclassified as efficient and evocative of lasting power of influence. I’d rather be in a bivouac with his LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER, upon the weeping lair of a promontory.

The ejusdem generis canon asserts that a general phrase at the end of a list is limited to the same type of things (the generic category) that are found in the specific list.

[E]jusdem generis . . . says that if a series of more than two items ends with a catch-all term that is broader than the category into which the preceding items fall but which those items do not exhaust, the catch-all term is presumably intended to be no broader than that category.