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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Incomplete or imperfect metamorphosis, as of an insect; hemimetabolism.
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"If Diderot was as far as possible from being a dramatic poet, if he was destitute of that supreme creative power which involves the transformation of an author's own personality, he possessed, on the other hand, in the highest degree, that faculty of demi-metamorphosis which is the exercise and the triumph of criticism, and which consists in putting one's self in the the place of the author, occupying the point of view to the subject under examination, and reading every writing in the spirit by which it was dictated."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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