Meaning of unimitatively | Babel Free

Definitions

In an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.

not-comparable

Examples

“1898, Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Introduction to The Complete⟳ Works of Robert Browning, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 3, p. xix, This tremendous scene […] is, in some respects of stage⟳ action, a counterpart of the awful scene between Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor after Duncan’s murder⟳. Yet how thoroughly and unimitatively is it reconstructed on opposite lines by the most original English pupil of the great Elizabethan wizard!”

“1961, Kenneth A. Telford (translator), Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation and Analysis, Chicago: Henry Regnery, Section 25, p. 50, […] it is less of a mistake⟳ not to know⟳ that a female deer has no horns than to paint⟳ unimitatively.”

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