Word Meanings - SUPERLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. B. Jonson.

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• PROPRIETY
  1. Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• EXALTATION
  The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this
• TRUTHFUL
  Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.
• TRUTHNESS
  Truth. Marston.
• TRUTH
  1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows,
• TRUTH-TELLER
  One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• SUPEREXALTATION
  Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.
• UNTRUTHFUL
  Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth"ful*ness, n.
• STRUTHIO
  A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
• STRUTHIAN
  Struthious.
• UNTRUTH
  1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak. Syn. --
• STRUTHIONES
  A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ,
• SELF-EXALTATION
  The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.
• IMPROPRIETY
  1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners. 2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every
• STRUTHIOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
• STRUTHIOIDEA
  See STRUTHIONES