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FANCIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formed or conceived by the imagination
Example:
a fictional character
Synonyms:
fabricated; fancied; fictional; fictitious
Classified under:
Similar:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fancy
Context examples:
She sighed for the air, the liberty, the quiet of the country; and fancied that if any place could give her ease, Barton must do it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
If she has fancied otherwise, her own wishes have misled her, and I am very sorry—extremely sorry—But, Miss Smith, indeed!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Bennet, who fancied she had gained a complete victory over him, continued her triumph.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I got upon a height, and looking on every side into the sea; fancied I saw a small island toward the north-east.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For now the dogs hated him—hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by Mit-sah; hated him for all the real and fancied favours he received; hated him for that he fled always at the head of the team, his waving brush of a tail and his perpetually retreating hind-quarters for ever maddening their eyes.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was in a way akin to that common habit of men and women troubled by real or fancied grievances, who periodically and volubly break their long-suffering silence and have their say till the last word is said.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Here the clock struck twelve, and both forgot themselves in watching Beth, for they fancied a change passed over her wan face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The embraces, tears, and promises of the parting fair ones may be fancied.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The mutineers were bolder than we fancied or they put more trust in Israel's gunnery.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
