2. Verb. (third-person singular of romance) ¹
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Definition of Romances
1. romance [v] - See also: romance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Romances
Literary usage of Romances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales: A Study of English Prose by Jonathan Nield, Charlotte Elizabeth Morgan, Harry Levi (1911)
"In thus speaking of the " seventeenth century romances," we must not infer that the
... There are, in addition to the anti-romances and miscellaneous works, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"It is true that the crusading zeal, and occasional Christianising tendencies,
which characterise some of the romances, still point to militant religious ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"But the romances relating to Arthur, doubtless on account of the extent to ...
Three of the romances by Chrétien de Troyes appear in a Welsh dress among the ..."
4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"... and when we recollect that only half a century elapsed between the dates of
these romances in Spain,12 we shall be struck with the fact that this space ..."
5. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"There has been no better classification of the romances than that which is proposed
by ... Senor Gayangos divides the romances into six classes:—1st, ..."
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