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Definition of Impostures

Imposture
Imposture Im*pos"ture, n. [L. impostura: cf. F. imposture. See Impone.] The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. --Johnson. Syn: Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.

Meaning of Impostures from wikipedia

- Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (UK: Intellectual Impostures), first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by physicists Alan...
- Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1652. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the...
- Bricmont co-wrote Impostures intellectuelles (US: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science; UK: Intellectual Impostures, 1998). The...
- An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise. Their objective is usually to try to...
- French peasant of the 16th century, was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village...
- Gerbi, Alexandre Histoire occultée de la décolonisation franco-africaine: Imposture, refoulements et névroses, L'Harmattan 2006. Dorothy Shipley White, Black...
- what was, for her, a rare turn to both serious, non-comedy acting and impostures of real people, she impersonated convicted poisoner Stacey Castor in the...
- L'effroyable Imposture (or "The Horrifying Fraud") is the original French title of a highly controversial and discredited 2002 book by French journalist...
- wrote: [M. Petis de la Croix] tells us, that there are calumnies and impostures, which have been published by authors of romances, and Turkish writers...
- JSTOR 4200779. S2CID 144268594. Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean (1999). Intellectual impostures: postmodern philosophers' abuse of science. London: Profile. ISBN 1-86197-124-9...