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Definition of Expatiations
1. expatiation [n] - See also: expatiation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expatiations
Literary usage of Expatiations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature by Henry Maudsley (1902)
"If his feelings have not been thus vitally moved and his practical understanding
developed, his expatiations will have little more body in them than the ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"As for what may seem to us the idle expatiations on the virtues of poetry in the
abstract, or the superfluous defences of it, these were things which, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"... the vibrations of which they are constituted, as of the " restless expatiations"
of thought transcending the relations of which mind is constituted. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"But, though scientists are hopelessly closed in, Mr. Godwin does not despair of
others getting out, and he asks : " Is thought, whose expatiations are so ..."
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