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Meaning of Polyfilla | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.

British, uncountable

Examples

“He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.”
“Kierkegaard saw clearly that faith is not a kind of epistemic Polyfilla that closes the small cracks left by reason, but a mad leap across a chasm devoid of all reason.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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