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Definition of Speciosities
1. speciosity [n] - See also: speciosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speciosities
Literary usage of Speciosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... commonplace intellect, and of no character but a hollow, blustery, pusillanimous
and unsound one; great only in maudlin patriotisms, in speciosities, ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... and the shops declining to take hypocrisies and speciosities any farther: —
what could the poor Century do, but at length admit, "Well, it is so. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... and the shops declining to take hypocrisies and speciosities any farther : —what
could the poor Century do, but at length admit, 'Well, it is so. ..."
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