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Definition of Juxtapositions
1. juxtaposition [n] - See also: juxtaposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Juxtapositions
Literary usage of Juxtapositions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Lapses by Henry Heath Bawden (1900)
"TABLE I. List of Cacophonous Juxtapositions in the Pronunciation or Writing of
which Errors were Made.1 In Pronunciation. Nova Scotian coal fields ..."
2. Phonetics of the New High German Language by Arwid Johannson (1906)
"... and the formations (originally juxtapositions; cf. §113) ,with -lei, as
dreierlei, vielerlei, einerlei (but this word is accentuated einerlei, ..."
3. Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle by John Isaac Beare (1906)
"... Aristotle (says Alexander) must mean juxtapositions of [ie colours based on
juxtapositions of] unlike parts. The juxtaposition would be ..."
4. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"A good literary taste knows what juxtapositions of thought are consecutive,
graduated, and pleas- ngs and it knows what juxtapositions of words and phrases ..."
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