Defoe
[di'fəu]
Definition
(noun.) English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).
Typist: Sean--From WordNet
Examples
- Defoe could not think that God Almighty had made women so glorious, with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men, and all to be only stewards of our houses, cooks, and slaves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They are such touches of nature as the art of Defoe might have introduced when he wished to win credibility for marvels and apparitions. Plato. The Republic.
- We find such active-minded English writers as Defoe (1659-1731) and Fielding (1707-54) deeply exercised by this problem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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