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Under these conditions it is again hidden beneath heterogeneous dogmas, obscure comments, and factitious explanations.
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOYBut before he had walked half a square, the factitious energy inspired by drink deserted him.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUThe entire structure of their social life reposed on feelings, and not on a factitious conception, on a work of art.
THE AESTHETICAL ESSAYSFRIEDRICH SCHILLERHis mind turns towards combinations, arrangements, legal or factitious organisations.
ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMYFREDERIC BASTIATThe prices of farms and improvements vary greatly, and are influenced much by factitious and local circumstances.
A NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS TO THE WESTJ. M. PECKThus one factitious reputation builds up another, and one bad book ushers in twenty which are worse.
EPHEMERA CRITICAJOHN CHURTON COLLINSFactitious green bice and mountain green have a like composition.
COOLEY'S CYCLOPDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PROFESSIONS, AND TRADES..., SIXTH EDITION, VOLUME IARNOLD COOLEYNo discord within has marred the loveliness without—no strife of the factitious world without has disturbed the harmony within.
CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMENANNA JAMESONHe was possessed of a factitious ease and self-possession that was almost aggression.
THE STRENGTH OF GIDEON AND OTHER STORIESPAUL LAURENCE DUNBAROur republic, however, does recognize an order of Patricians, though it rises high above the region of factitious distinctions.
THE KNICKERBOCKER, VOL. 22, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 1843VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FACTITIOUS
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- artificial
- assumed
- avowed
- bluffing
- bogus
- charlatan
- cheating
- concealed
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- studied
- supernatural
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- theatrical
- unaccountable
- uncanny
- unconforming
- unorthodox
- unusual
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