Fancy forms the body and it is error that makes the unreal appear as real; but the formation of fancy, and the fabrications of untruth, cannot have any truth or reality in them.
He finally adopted all the letters but seven, and his assertion that these seven were fabrications was a falsehood.
The absurdity of Morton's fabrications respecting the woman Lucy will be appreciated when we remember that she actually had two children by Edward IV.
Of all the baseless fabrications of the Tudor chroniclers, Hall's story of the death of Edmund Earl of Rutland is the most absurd.
He upset some odious fabricationsof the chroniclers affecting the character of Margaret of Anjou, by proving that she was in Scotland at the time when the battle of Wakefield was fought.
On the other hand the decisive success of their side has kept thousands at the north fully believing the wildest fabrications of the root-and-branch abolitionists.
These fabrications are the stock comparisons with which almost every invective against the wrongs of any lower class is sharpened.
The Martian in his analysis becomes aware of instances related in the Old Testament that on his planet would have to be termed forgeries,--deliberate falsifications or fabrications of documents or of the signature to them.
I have already deplumed St. Patrick of the serpent expulsion; or, rather, I have done honour to his memory, by saving it from the fabrications of pious impostors.
He says, "These letters, in truth, were as gross and clumsy fabrications as ever were put forward.
He could not give God thanks for the discovery of what he really believed was one of those fabrications intended to strengthen the ruling party, which always follow a detected conspiracy.
But all her apologists, with apparently strong conviction, have sought to prove that these letters are fabrications of her enemies.
Romish fabrications and interpolations, by means of which the numerous fabricated acts of Romish martyrs, as well as already existing fables referring to particular popes and emperors (comp.
If we inquire into the causes operative here we first of all see in the fabrications of this individual an unbounded craving for compensation for a natural deficiency--in this instance a racial deficiency.
When an attempt was made to obtain his past history it was soon discovered that it was so fantastically colored with fabrications as to be entirely worthless, so far as a reliable account of his past life is concerned.
The various established faiths and revealed religions were little more than wilful fabrications that were bound to crumble before the onslaughts of reason.
The distinction between natural and revealed religion was an arbitrary one, and the conception of priestly fabrications a mere figment of the imagination.
The very thought of the wretch tempts one to revolt at human piety, at any rate where priestcraft and its fabrications are at the bottom of it.
They are fictions, fabrications which modern research has traced to their sources, and which no unperverted mind would entertain for a moment.
The constant detection of very limited fabrications of a similar nature, when evidence is sifted in a court of justice, shows us the impossibility of weaving a plausible texture of this kind.
The evolving of such fabrications was all along one of his chief characteristics.
The story of this girl's falsifications and fabrications as obtained from her people is exceedingly long.
A young woman, well endowed physically and mentally, for years has often been indulging in extensive fabrications which have no discernible basis in advantages accruing to herself.
Perhaps this was the fact around which some of her fabrications at that time centered.
We have knowledge of scores of other fabrications which were detected.
The greatest difficulty was on account of her extreme lying which for years had included extensive fabrications and rapid self-contradictions, as well as defensive denials of delinquency.
This was at the same time when some of his most complicated fabrications were reiterated.
Any of us may be confronted by fabrications so consistent as to leave at one or several interviews the impression of truth.
This was how the matter stood at the time we last heard of the case, and while the parents were holding back, a young man's affections and the girl's fabrications were growing apace.
Investigation of each of these episodic cases has shown the fabrications to emanate either from a distinctly abnormal personality or to partake of a character which rules them out of the realm of pathological lying.
Insane, fabrications of Insanity and criminalism, relation of Itinerancy, correlated with pathological lying Janet B.
We have no history of this woman ever having indulged in elaborate fabrications and, in general, she is of thoroughly good reputation.
Sir Theodore is much impressed by what the Queen says as to the desirableness of a Life of Her Majesty, which might put a stop to the gossiping fabrications which have of late become so current.
She so much wishes that something should be done about her own Life, as so many people have published and are publishing her Life, with the best intentions, full of extraordinary fabrications and untruths.
He was sure they were genuine, and he scouted the notion that they were fabrications for the reason that he had paid less than it would cost to fabricate them.
The fabrications are very skillful, and even the experts are sometimes deceived by them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fabrications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
