2. Verb. (third-person singular of parody) ¹
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Definition of Parodies
1. parody [v] - See also: parody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parodies
Literary usage of Parodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Robert Browning openly and avowedly detested parodies. ... Arnold of Rugby told
his boys to follow his example and never read parodies, "as they suggested ..."
2. Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books by Alice Bertha Kroeger, American Library Association, Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917)
"parodies of the works of English and American authors, collected and annotated.
... The table of contents gives an alphabetical list of authors of parodies ..."
3. Parody in Jewish Literature by Israel Davidson (1907)
"Subsequently, numerous written copies were made, in which title, contents and
arrangement were carelessly confused. CHAPTER II PROVENÇAL parodies OF THE ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"In dramatic composition, Aristophane! is perpetually hooking in parodies of
Euripides whom of all poets he hated, as well as of .K-*ch\ his Sophocles, ..."
5. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"This excluded de- monies are ment will rankle in the flesh; it will parodies of
bring about no end of disorders until it is finally recognised and admitted ..."
6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated Political and Satirical
Poems, parodies, and Jeux-d'esprit of the Right Hon. George Canning, the Earl ..."
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