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Definition of Depicters
1. depicter [n] - See also: depicter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depicters
Literary usage of Depicters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"... and it was this power that made her the pioneer and the leader not only of
the group of depicters of New England life, but of the whole later school of ..."
2. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"The spirit of the times and a combination of circumstances made of him the leader
of the depicters of democracy in America. From the vantage point of the ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... of Nicephorus Gregoras, occur as depicters of the events of somewhat comprehensive
periods ; Agathias, ..."
4. The Rise of English Literary Prose by George Philip Krapp (1915)
"... who all seem to have " look'd on truth askance and strangely," to Thomas
Dekker, the most genuine of the end of the century depicters of London life. ..."
5. History of the People of the Netherlands by Petrus Johannes Blok (1907)
"... an Adriaan Brouwer, the inimitable depicters of Holland's joyous peasant life.
Men of independent talent like Bartholomeus van der Heist, the famous, ..."
6. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"... painters in words, like those in colours, are rather in need of somebody else
to " put in the figures" ; and the great depicters of action content them- ..."
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