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Definition of Romanticising
1. romanticise [v] - See also: romanticise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Romanticising
Literary usage of Romanticising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"In spite, however, of this romanticising of Plautus, Shakespeare has maintained
throughout the play the hallowed unities of time and place, "the necessary ..."
2. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"... and romanticising—if the word may be passed—of New England culture. From sources
of German metaphysics, whether directly or indirectly, from Fichte and ..."
3. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"... much less in any deliberate misrepresentation, but in a deep unconscious
romanticising of the past by men's own memories, and the shaping of all history ..."
4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"Dryden's defence of his romanticising : Preface to Don Sebastian. Defects of the
play in structure and character. Ranting style of the heroic drama ..."
5. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"... but in a deep unconscious romanticising of the past by men's own memories,
and the shaping of all history into an exemplification of the workings of a ..."
6. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"In spite, however, of this romanticising of Plautus, Shakespeare has maintained
throughout the play the hallowed unities of time and place, " the necessary ..."
7. Modern Germany: Her Political and Economic Problems, Her Foreign and by J. Ellis Barker (1905)
"... the economic views of the German Government and of their officials were tinged
by philosophy, philanthropy, and romanticising cosmopolitanism. ..."
8. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"One of these causes seems to me the fact of both cycles of tradition having early
fallen into the hands of romanticising and purely literary writers, ..."
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