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Definition of Discolours
1. discolour [v] - See also: discolour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discolours
Literary usage of Discolours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi: Documents Relating by John Quincy Adams (1822)
"... and to infer such an imputation from my letter would seem to require a mind
distorted by passion and a "jealousy that discolours every thing. ..."
2. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays
irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own ..."
3. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays
irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1877)
"For every one (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave
or den of his own, which refracts and discolours the light of nature ..."
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