phantasmal
Collocations
3ADJ.
all, fixed
PHANTASMAL + NOUN
portraiture
PREP.
than
Definitions
adj
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
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3The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
WiktionaryMr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
Wiktionary[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the d
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