fictive

Example Sentences

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We next enter a fictive chapel, with the Latin rite being celebrated by a set of crimson vestments and an altar cloth, made in Paris in 1619 and given by Louis XIII.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

When he isn’t fetishizing the fictive cannibal Hannibal Lecter — “a wonderful man” — Donald Trump rhapsodizes over the gangster Al Capone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Ingrid Yang is a hapless 29-year-old PhD candidate at a small university in Massachusetts, floundering on a dissertation about the school’s most famous former professor, the fictive, late Chinese poet Xiao-Wen Chou.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022

When creditors came by demanding to see the owner of the building, Holmes referred them happily to the fictive H. S. Campbell.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson