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Imitancy
Im′i-tan-cy
,Noun.
[From L.
imitans
, p. pr. of imitare
.] Tendency to imitation.
[R.]
Carlyle.
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imitancy
imitancy
English
Noun
imitancy (uncountable)
- Tendency to imitation.
- 1832 Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.
- 1832 Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson