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Definition of Farcicality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farcicality
Literary usage of Farcicality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Expectations ; Master Humphrey's Clock: With Introduction,critical by Charles Dickens (1908)
"But from this fair-haired, blue-eyed Hercules of a blacksmith the taint of
farcicality spreads ever darker and deeper, until in the portrait of Estella's ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... n. deceitfulness, emptiness, hollowness; spec, half-heartedness, dou- bleness,
farcicality, unfaithfulness, hypocrisy, disingenuousness, pretence, etc. ..."
3. Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations by Francis Hindes Groome, David Patrick (1898)
"... hard to say whether the romantic side of Elizabeth's life is more notable for
its prominence or for its farcicality, if not unreality. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"... the aboriginal appeared less as a phenomenon than as a joke upon two eggs—an
incarnate farcicality. Europeans seize upon the character of the YANKEE, ..."
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