Definition of Imitating

1. Verb. (present participle of imitate) ¹

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Definition of Imitating

1. imitate [v] - See also: imitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imitating

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Literary usage of Imitating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... by declaring, that among all the virtues of his predecessors, he was the most ambitious of imitating the humane philosophy of Marcus Antoninus. ..."

2. The Question of Our Speech: The Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures by Henry James (1905)
"At first dimly, but then more and more distinctly, you will find yourselves noting, comparing, preferring, at last,positively emulating and imitating. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Unfortunately David's teaching filled him with the belief that high art consisted in imitating the antique, and that the dignity of a painter constrained ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The natives learned much from their more cultured neighbors; and, imitating them, they became still bolder sailors and are said to have sailed out through ..."

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