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Definition of Impostors
1. impostor [n] - See also: impostor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impostors
Literary usage of Impostors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches in London by James Grant (1838)
"CHAPTER I. BEGGING impostors. Begging-letter impostors—Their supposed number—Probable
amount of the money they receive—Probable number of letters they send, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"Among this class of impostors, the simulating epileptic was perhaps the most
common and the most successful in levying contributions on the sensitive and ..."
3. Guarding a Great City by William McAdoo (1906)
"Vili POLICE impostors AND FAKIRS EVERY profession has ... impostors—medicine has
its quacks, the law has its shysters, and the police departments, ..."
4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"QUACKS AND impostors. QUACKS have been in existence so long, ... Just and proper
legislation has clipped the wings of the vile impostors who used to trade ..."
5. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a by Charles Buck (1838)
"G. impostors asserts, "That if a rustic believes his bishop pr-v posing nn
heretical tenet for an article of !\.:rh, such belief is meritorious. ..."
6. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"They who carried about she-bears or other animals, Balsamen? says, were such
impostors as pretended that the hairs of those bears, or toys tied to them, ..."
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