Definition of Impostors

1. Noun. (plural of impostor) ¹

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Definition of Impostors

1. impostor [n] - See also: impostor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impostors

impossibleness
impossibles
impossibly
impost
imposted
imposter
imposters
imposthumate
imposthumation
imposthumations
imposthume
imposthumes
imposting
impostor
impostorism
impostors (current term)
impostorship
impostour
impostrix
impostrous
imposts
impostume
impostumes
imposturage
imposture
impostured
impostures
imposturous
impostury
imposure

Literary usage of Impostors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketches in London by James Grant (1838)
"CHAPTER I. BEGGING impostors. Begging-letter impostors—Their supposed number—Probable amount of the money they receive—Probable number of letters they send, ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"Among this class of impostors, the simulating epileptic was perhaps the most common and the most successful in levying contributions on the sensitive and ..."

3. Guarding a Great City by William McAdoo (1906)
"Vili POLICE impostors AND FAKIRS EVERY profession has ... impostors—medicine has its quacks, the law has its shysters, and the police departments, ..."

4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"QUACKS AND impostors. QUACKS have been in existence so long, ... Just and proper legislation has clipped the wings of the vile impostors who used to trade ..."

5. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a by Charles Buck (1838)
"G. impostors asserts, "That if a rustic believes his bishop pr-v posing nn heretical tenet for an article of !\.:rh, such belief is meritorious. ..."

6. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"They who carried about she-bears or other animals, Balsamen? says, were such impostors as pretended that the hairs of those bears, or toys tied to them, ..."

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