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Word Meanings - PITFALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.

Related words: (words related to PITFALLING)

  • INSNARER
    One who insnares.
  • INSNARL
    To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
  • CONTRADICTION
    1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
  • PITFALLING
    Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
  • INSNARE
    Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
  • PITFALL
    A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • CONTRADICTIONAL
    Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. Milton.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • SELF-CONTRADICTION
    The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

 

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