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- noun Plural form of
plagiarism .
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Examples
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Himself till dark, and then to make His way down the other side of the mountain; and other such plagiarisms from the German Rationalists.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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Others may be unconscious plagiarisms from the great and dead (never steal from the living and mediocre), ideas absorbed in my reading so long ago that I’ve made them mine and forgotten the source.
ed abbey | an introduction & on nature « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Others may be unconscious plagiarisms from the great and dead (never steal from the living and mediocre), ideas absorbed in my reading so long ago that I’ve made them mine and forgotten the source.
April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The best known relationship between Goethe and Sterne is in connection with the so-called plagiarisms in the appendix to the third volume of the “Wanderjahre.”
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Cold glances generally greet her earliest works; they are handled suspiciously, the beauties are all extracted, set in a row, and labelled "plagiarisms;" the residue, like dross in crucibles, is handed back as "original, and her undoubted property."
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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Romantic writers routinely borrowed from works of travel, and, although contemporary periodical reviewers frequently remarked upon these "plagiarisms," in fact borrowing from travel texts was customary. [
Introduction 2002
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It's about Glasgow, and Art, but it's also funny and horrifying and utterly postmodern in its famous annotated list of plagiarisms.
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But be advised that Jeff Rense's far right, anti-Semitic website has long since exposed it as a cut-and-pasted tissue of plagiarisms (click here) -- not to mention the fact that, six years later, America has yet to be destroyed.
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But be advised that Jeff Rense's far right, anti-Semitic website has long since exposed it as a cut-and-pasted tissue of plagiarisms (click here) -- not to mention the fact that, six years later, America has yet to be destroyed.
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That's how it is with us fundamentalists we blame the devil for all false religions and we view all false religions as plagiarisms of Christianity.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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