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Definition of Dispelling
1. dispel [v] - See also: dispel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispelling
Literary usage of Dispelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds (1999)
"MY CONSTANT COMPANION - dispelling THE BLUES - GENTLE NELLIE - FACES IN THE ...
She was a splendid woman, and had the best faculty of dispelling the blues ..."
2. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"The Mind dispelling Optical Illusions.—Actual perception of spatial properties
is accompanied by movements corresponding to its character. ..."
3. The Legion of Liberty: And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words by Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy (1857)
"Freedom's glorious Sun, dispelling the black chaos of Slavery. May this great
monument, ... dispelling ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... partially elucidating some obscure passage in the progress of society :
dispelling favourite or deluding visions or dreams : cutting, when practicable, ..."
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