Definition of Leitmotivs

1. Noun. (plural of leitmotiv) ¹

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Definition of Leitmotivs

1. leitmotiv [n] - See also: leitmotiv

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leitmotivs

leisure wear
leisured
leisureless
leisureliness
leisurelinesses
leisurely
leisures
leisurewear
leisuring
leisurist
leisurists
leiteite
leitmotif
leitmotifs
leitmotiv
leitmotivs (current term)
lek
leke
lekgotla
lekked
lekker
lekking
lekkings
leks
leku
lekvar
lekvars
lekythi
lekythoi
lekythos

Literary usage of Leitmotivs

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

1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"His style, clear and melodious, remains truly French in its elegance and purity of lines. Only in the general plan and the employ of leitmotivs are ..."

2. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1902)
"... the daughter of the veldt, of coarse, a martyr in a home of sin and drunkenness—alcohol and lust furnishing, indeed, the leitmotivs of the whole story. ..."

3. Paris as it is: An Intimate Account of Its People, Its Home Life, and Its by Katharine De Forest (1900)
"... in which the leitmotivs were what he called the students' cries. To this day I can hear him saying solemnly: "Here are the students coming in the ..."

4. Great Musical Composers: German, French and Italian by George Titus Ferris (1887)
"In the Prologue a special leitmotivs accompanying the words " Horrendum est in incidere in Manns Dei" signifies the Death, not only of the body, ..."

5. The Musical World (1882)
"... as he did for the Ring; so that the "leitmotivs* " may at once be detected and committed to memory. An English translation by Herr Ernst von Wolzogen, ..."

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