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Definition of Charlatanries
1. charlatanry [n] - See also: charlatanry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charlatanries
Literary usage of Charlatanries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... usual charlatanries, — and that in three days our sick people would be cured.
He made a very plausible speech. The Father satisfied him, ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"Like Faust and Paracelsus he mistook certain charlatanries for truth. Yet his
conception of infinity as a correlation of things, his enthusiasm for nature, ..."
3. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1842)
"How many among ourselves are his debtors for the first assurance that the native
disdain of a youthful breast for the shams and charlatanries that so easily ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1870)
"The author, looking into these foolish fancies, these conscious or unconscious
charlatanries, considered how the evil might be remedied. ..."
5. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"... graceful, and harmonious, combining a flowing movement with condensation, and
freu from ihe tricks and charlatanries of diction. ..."
6. Letters from the South by James Kirke Paulding (1835)
"The people will then wake up, perhaps, for twenty years or so, until a new
generation rises to act over the same charlatanries, for the pleasure of leaving ..."
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