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Definition of Subtler
1. subtle [adj] - See also: subtle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtler
Literary usage of Subtler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Psychology: Briefer Course by Edward Lee Thorndike (1914)
"... THE subtler FORMS OF ANALYSIS Stock cases of learning by the separation of a
subtle element from the total situations in which it inheres and the ..."
2. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"One of the two reasons therefor, however, is simply that the finer, subtle,
preferential bonds with subtler and less often abstracted elements go beyond, ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"THE subtler EMOTIONS. These are the moral, intellectual, and aesthetic feel
Concords of sounds, of colors, of lines, ..."
4. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"20 Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free : Although a subtler
Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. ..."
5. The Play of Today: Studies in Play-structure for the Student and the Theatre by Elizabeth Roxana Hunt (1913)
"The subtler Dramatic Qualities Any fair beginning in the study of play structure
must be made with some consideration for the mere framework ..."
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