Meaning of travest | Babel Free

Definitions

To travesty; to disguise; to parody; to demean.

formal, transitive, uncommon

Examples

“I have not much endeavour'd to make any diſcoveries of it, and it is a hard matter to give any account thereof, without ſome hazard of traveſting Hiſtory into Romance.”

“I grant that wit requires comparison and a contrast, be it incongruity, or even absurdity; in mean, burlesque or dignified objects ; be it in travesting, exaggerating or diminishing reality ; but I see no proof that these mental operations result from the faculty in question alone, and therefore from an intellectual faculty.”

“I have next shown you the Greeks, and " the wisdom" of their philosophy, often travesting, sometimes tarnishing the Christian religion : […]”

“In the first place we shall often be discussing facts which have been so travested by propaganda that your knowledge of them is bound to be imperfect.”

“The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.”

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