imposture
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Imposture turns on a "ridiculous mistake" which somehow fooled credulous reviewers; A Quiet Adjustment is "three hundred pages of repression, of a particularly English kind".
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011
At one end we have the confident people who can attribute anything to casual coincidence; who allow Zadok Imposture and Nathan Coincidence to anoint Solomon Selfconceit king.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
Ah! yes, we are self-sacrificing enough, and loyal enough in our devotion to this new-crowned king, the child of Prince Imposture and Princess Pretense.
From Clocks by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
"Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity," 1837, p.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
Imposture, how it burns, through generations: how it is burnt up; for a time.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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