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Definition of Fancifulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fancifulness
Literary usage of Fancifulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of History in France and Germany by Robert Flint (1874)
"... which have not generally, I think, received justice, but also with extreme
rashness and fancifulness. In the history of religious philosophy, ..."
2. Language and Languages: Being "Chapters on Language" and "Families of Speech" by Frederic William Farrar (1878)
"But we really are not aware exactly at what point of the enquiry the fancifulness
is supposed to begin. For (i.) Professor Miiller admits freely that 'an ..."
3. Chapters on Language by Frederic William Farrar (1873)
"But we really are not aware exactly at what point of the enquiry the fancifulness
is supposed to begin. For (i.) Professor Miiller admits freely that 'an ..."
4. The Bookmart (1889)
"These essays have a distinctively studious and thoughtful quality ; there is no
pedantry in them, if occasionally a little fancifulness of interpretation. ..."
5. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century by John Tulloch (1874)
"(6} Their speculative fancifulness was largely due to the same habits 0f mind.
They had no adequate criteria of knowledge. They failed in distinguishing the ..."
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