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Meaning of "phantasmagory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHANTASMAGORY

fænˈtæzməɡərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHANTASMAGORY

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phantasmagory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHANTASMAGORY

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHANTASMAGORY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PHANTASMAGORY

accessory · advisory · amphigory · depository · directory · factory · Federal Capital Territory · glory · gory · history · income category · introductory · inventory · ivory · laboratory · memory · story · territory · theory · victory

Synonyms and antonyms of phantasmagory in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Φαντασμαγορία
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phantasmagory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHANTASMAGORY»

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Imprudent Prue; A Phantasmagory
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: Digby, Long Subjects: Law / General Law / Administrative Law
Adam Ascue, 2009
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Frankfurt School: Vol. 3
As a consequence, he moves from the sphere of production to the domination of ' phantasmagory', already mentioned by Marx, in order to explain the persistence of capitalism. (Marx [1976: 1651: 'A definite social relation between men ...
J. M. Bernstein, 1994
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Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in ...
While the ghastly figure of Murder stalks through 'murky-simmering Paris,' her ' snaky-sparkling head' raised in grim anticipation of the Terror, the narrator warns us that 'the Reader, who looks earnestly through this dim Phantasmagory of the ...
Francesco C. Billari, 2006
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Historical Essays
Real-Phantasmagory: The "phantasmagoria [sic]" was the name given to a contrivance that employed a magic lantern to produce illusions of ghostly apparitions; it was first displayed in London in 1802. The earliest citation of this spelling ...
Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche, 2002
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Popular Science
external realities — sun, moon, stars, rocks, clouds, earth, and human history and tradition — is resolved or reduced into mere present thinkings of your mind or my mind, a mere complex phantasmagory of the present human spirit ; and ...
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The Horror Reader
And once again, as the frightful climax of the Terror draws near, the figures of phantom- show proliferate: Robespierre's 'Feast of Pikes' is a 'Scenic Phantasmagory unexampled' (ihid., 3:155), while in the terrible days of Prairial, the red-shirted ...
Ken Gelder, 2000
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A Disimprisoned Epic: Form and Vision in Carlyle's French ...
We can attain a deeper appreciation of the mixed form of The French Revolution by understanding two contrasting literary kinds, allegory and phantasmagory, explored by Carlyle in his critical essays and adopted for creative purposes in his  ...
Mark Cumming, 1988
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Twice-divided Nation: The Civil War and National Memory in ...
Potomac on their march towards Manassas; and almost with their first step into the Virginia mud, the phantasmagory of a countless host and impregnable ramparts . . . dissolved quite away." As if he were acting out some absurdly Quixotic tale, ...
Samuel J. Graber, 2008
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Fraser's Magazine
In distracted blackmagical phantasmagory, adumhrations of yet higher and highest Dalliances" hover stupendous in the background : whereof your Georgels , and Campans, and other official characters, can take no notice! There, in distracted ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1837
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Drummond of Hawthornden : the story of his life and writings
... and which rolls itself for ever round him in diurnal and nocturnal show, yet will always be thinking of it as only a painted phantasmagory hung in an infinite unknown, and will always be tending towards the utmost verge of this phantasmagory ...
David Masson, 1969

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHANTASMAGORY»

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Looking Back: 'Wizard of Oz' comes to town
“Catering to a whim” — An editorial criticizing Cleveland's “daylight conserving phantasmagory” took that city to task for switching from Central ... «Mansfield News Journal, Sep 14»
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Clearing the first hurdle
So, your phantasmagoric picture of the future is just that: phantasmagory. P.S. You are proving more and more often that, your nom de plume is ... «The Economist, Jun 13»
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Thomas De Quincey Writes While High As A Kite
This is is an opium-soaked apparition, a fantastic proto-Surrealist Gothic phantasmagory. It must have seemed to De Quincey that he had ... «Booktryst, Jan 13»
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Tariq Ramadan: “This Most Manipulative” of Islamists?
In that one region of the world, the old categories of supernatural phantasmagory about Jews and conspiracies continued to reign over the ... «Family Security Matters, Jul 10»
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