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Definition of Banalities
1. banality [n] - See also: banality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banalities
Literary usage of Banalities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seigniorial System in Canada: A Study in French Colonial Policy by William Bennett Munro (1907)
"THE banalities. AMONG the important incidents of the seigniorial system in ...
In various parts of France the seigniorial banalities included the right to ..."
2. A Text book of alkaloidal practice by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott (1907)
"There then remains (through the banalities of hygiene and the tonic regime) only
to repair the breaches which during the assault have been produced in the ..."
3. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"2, Art. 23, allowed certain banalities to remain, among others, those which were
established by ... The communes could not establish new banalities. ..."
4. The Feudal Régime by Charles Seignobos (1906)
"... imposed by the seigneur, and that' . took the form of a monopoly. These were
the banalities., They appear in the documents only after the tenth century. ..."
5. The Actor-manager by Leonard Merrick (1919)
"What banalities are considered seriously because he gives them life! ... Why does
the actor put the banalities on? When he is his own manager, ..."
6. Fantazius Mallare, a Mysterious Oathby Ben Hecht by Ben Hecht (1922)
"It has amused me to put down with great care the few banalities which have
normalized my ... The will to live is no more than the hypnotism of banalities. ..."