donnishness

The suggestion is that he sublimated homosexual feeling in a kind of sensual donnishness.

The pun in the title "The Lyre of Orpheus" suggests the donnishness of the wit in Robertson Davies's new novel.

As those familiar with The Silmarillion will guess, the prose style is far from that breezy, homely donnishness that characterises The Hobbit and the first book of The Lord of the Rings.