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Definition of Optimisms
1. optimism [n] - See also: optimism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimisms
Literary usage of Optimisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Out to Win, the Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson (1918)
"Unfounded optimisms, which under no possible circumstances could ever have been
... Inasmuch as these optimisms were widely accepted in England and France, ..."
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"How irrelevantly remote seem all our usual refined optimisms and intellectual
and moral consolations in presence of a need of help like this ! ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"These theories may be optimisms from the standpoint of their advocates, and as
a matter of fact many of them are thus regarded. True philosophical pessimism ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"Before the Scottish lord has gone much further, Sir Christopher takes up the
eulogium in a more specific »•train, indulging in some optimisms on which the ..."
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