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Definition of Typifying
1. typify [v] - See also: typify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Typifying
Literary usage of Typifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"In 1847 she published a collection of one hundred poems in twelve groups, typifying
bouquets of flowers, under the title The Floral Year. ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"So it came about that " The Queen " is constantly used in these pages in the
sense of Queen Victoria as typifying the Monarch of the British Empire; ..."
3. Elements of Forestry by Frederick Franklin Moon, Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1914)
"Growth in Germany as typifying Development.—Of all the modern nations Germany
has most thoroughly mastered forestry practice in all its details, ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... because the individual remains the same, so that the number typifying the
universe, terrestrial and celestial, becomes 13. When, on the other hand, ..."
5. Erichthonius and the Three Daughters of Cecrops by Benjamin Powell (1906)
"... in juxtaposition on the Acropolis, typifying the old Semitic element in the
settlement around the Acropolis. ..."
6. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"... on the eating of the fatal apple—Mountains expressive—Three different ones
described, typifying three classes of men—Frigid zones and Sahara Desert, ..."
7. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
""typifying Human Aspiration, strives for the Liberation of the Soul from ...
"typifying the Most Potent and Subtle Weapons of Formalism at its Best, ..."
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