Meaning of fictionary | Babel Free

Definitions

Fictional.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“I used to spend⟳ my mornings in the large, deserted drawing-room, whose charm was not yet broken, inditing ardent letters, into which my whole soul undisguised, was breathed to an imaginary friend; or writing some fragmentary sketches of the life of some fictionary favourite of fortune, in whose fate I always foreshadowed my own⟳.”

“Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phenomena.”

“Omitting, for the occasion, all thought of Anglo-Saxon literary remains, histories, chronicles, theological, fictionary, and scientific works, the entire number⟳ of documentary evidences, such as charters, wills, etc., of the Saxon period in England is very limited.”

“Showing a lady into a library in which were alcoves, the books being arranged by subjects, he said, "Now, Miss⟳ Mary, I will show⟳ you the concave^([sic]) of fictionary novels."'”

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