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Definition of Real thing
1. Noun. Informal usage attributing authenticity.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Real Thing
Literary usage of Real thing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The sign is only put up as a visible direction for our reverence, because the
real thing is not physically present. Every one knows the use of sucli signs ..."
2. The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray, Roland Gray (1921)
"Is the corporation to which these wills of individual men are attributed a real
thing, or only a thing by fiction, a fictitious entity ? ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"It is absolutely the real thing; a novel so fine, so sincere, so absorbing that
it cannot be overpraised or oversold. Henry Sydnor Harrison's SAINT TERESA ..."
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