Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of fancy or imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
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- adjective Having no
fancy ; withoutideas orimagination .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her fanciless love dwells solely in the heart; and again how is this conceivable with such a character!
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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With this exception, the censure originated in a fanciless way of thinking, to which everything appears unnatural that does not consort with its own tame insipidity.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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I trace it in the total absence of the romantic spirit; in a certain fanciless insipidity of composition; in the manner of handling mythological and historical materials, which is neither properly mythological nor historical; lastly, in the aim to produce a tragic purity, which degenerates into monotony.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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With this exception, the censure originates only in a fanciless way of thinking, to which everything appears unnatural that does not suit its own tame insipidity.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804
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[28] "The censure," observes Schlegel, "originates in a fanciless way of thinking, to which every thing appears unnatural that does not suit its tame insipidity.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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