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Definition of Romancing
1. romance [v] - See also: romance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Romancing
Literary usage of Romancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1846)
"romancing. BY A Till]!. romancing, or lying, is more general both as a vice and
a luxury, than the world is pleased to allow, for every grade and profession ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Mules and Oxen — Art of Loading Wagons — romancing Propensity of Travellers —
The Departure — Storms and Wagon-covers — Quagmires — Tricks of marauding ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Mules and Oxen — Art of Loading Wagons — romancing Propensity of Travellers —
The Departure — Storms and Wagon-covers — Quagmires — Tricks of marauding ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"in strange situations and strange places.' But he used to indulge himself in a
species of romancing that might perhaps be termed coherent madness. ..."
5. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"... Arabian horses brought to America—Horses sent to our Presidents—Disastrous
experiments of A. Keene Richards—Tendency of Arab romancing from Ben Hur. ..."