Imitations
[,ɪmi'teiʃənz]
Examples
- Then he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badness of his imitations? Plato. The Republic.
- It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. Plato. The Republic.
- The pearl is not produced synthetically, but many imitations exist. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This Pergamum bequest, astonishing in itself, had the still more astonishing result of producing imitations in other quarters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But of what sort of lives they are severally the imitations I am unable to say. Plato. The Republic.
- For, as we may be allowed to say, a little parodying the words of Plato, 'they have seen bad imitations of the philosopher-statesman. Plato. The Republic.
- Manufactures introduced in this manner are generally employed upon foreign materials, being imitations of foreign manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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