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Definition of Sophistries
1. sophistry [n] - See also: sophistry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophistries
Literary usage of Sophistries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal (1901)
"But, as we know, perversion of heart is often the result of perversion of mind;
sophistries, clothed in brilliant phrases, are the most powerful agents of ..."
2. Passion and Criminality: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal, Alfred Richard Allinson (1905)
"But, as we know, perversion of heart is often the result of perversion of mind;
sophistries, clothed in brilliant phrases, are the most powerful agents of ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"Their only child, born in skill in veiling his own sophistries and expos- September
1802, had died on 25 Oct. follow- ing other people's, his versatility ..."
4. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Now, the sophistries and tricks of intellectual wrestling correspond exactly to
the conceits of the ' metaphysical poets.' A commentator upon Donne's poems ..."
5. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1860)
"... AND SALES ARE MONET—BANK sophistries—THE STATE OP TUB
WEST—FREIGHTS —TONNAGE—RAILROADS — GRAIN—TIIE SOUTH—COTTON—CORN—NEW YORK AND NEW
ORLEANS— TALUK OK ..."
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