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Definition of Illusorily
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illusorily
Literary usage of Illusorily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The internal and the external order of things are illusorily superposed ...
illusorily overspread upon Brahman from all eternity. ..."
2. The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu by Mādhava, Edward Byles Cowell, Archibald Edward Gouch (1908)
"... &c., illusorily superposed upon that basis, to the connection between them,
to the co-inherence, and so forth: a supposition not entertained by any ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"His particular attribute is pseudo-simplicity; he is falsely simple, illusorily
tall, emptily big. These words are perhaps too strong : if they would fit a ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"The transcendentalist theory has rather for its task to show how, being one, they
can spuriously and illusorily be made to appear separate. ..."
5. The Esthetic Basis of Greek Art of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. by Rhys Carpenter (1921)
"... of these formal devices will be ascribed (illusorily) to an actual spatial
existent to which they will impart their peculiar emotional suggestions. ..."
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