Definition of Mimicries

1. Noun. (plural of mimicry) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mimicries

1. mimicry [n] - See also: mimicry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimicries

mimic convulsion
mimic genes
mimic spasm
mimic tic
mimicable
mimical
mimically
mimick
mimicked
mimicker
mimickers
mimicking
mimickries
mimickry
mimicks
mimicries (current term)
mimicry
mimics
miming
mimiviral
mimivirus
mimiviruses
mimmation
mimmer
mimmest
mimmick
mimmicked
mimmicks
mimographer
mimographers

Literary usage of Mimicries

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

1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"1806: early tales and poems, and mimicries; (6) 1807-11: work with Mary Lamb; disclosure of power in prose; tales from Shakespeare and Homer; Dramatic Potto ..."

2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"Have we not in childhood clapped our little hands at the curious pictorial mimicries presented to the eye (albeit then we knew not of the borrowing), ..."

3. Clinical Lectures and Essays by James Paget (1879)
"If you study these mimicries from the mental side, you may, I say, ... But I think I may assure you, that to regard all mimicries of organic diseases as ..."

4. Teaching to Read by Nellie Elfa Turner (1915)
"Quaint and vast mimicries : Quaint, fanciful; singular; curious. Vast, boundless; of great extent. Can you imagine quaint and vast mimicries of human or of ..."

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