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Definition of Phantasies
1. phantasy [v] - See also: phantasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantasies
Literary usage of Phantasies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dreams and Myths: A Study in Race Psychology by Karl Abraham (1913)
"It will be objected that myths spring from phantasies which operate during the
... Children give themselves to such dream-like phantasies very readily. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Works: "The City of Dreadful Night," 1880; "Vane's Story," 1880; " Essays and
phantasies, " 1881. Posthumous: " The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm, ..."
3. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"It will be objected that myths spring from phantasies which operate during the
... Children give themselves to such dream-like phantasies very readily. ..."
4. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"But phantasies have a bad reputation among psychologists. The psycho-analytical
theories hitherto obtaining have treated them accordingly. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... some more, some lesse, as please the phantasies of their inconstant mindes,
2d ed. 1585, f. 21. ..."
6. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1898)
"The Creed does not go so far as to give utterance to the second and third of
these thoughts, and it is far from exalting the phantasies of pious curiosity ..."
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