Definitions
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- n. An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvellous exploit or adventure.
Etymologies
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Examples
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July, and declared that, as he was a prisoner in Fort Warren during that month, the interview was a "Munchausenism."
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
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A six foot New Hampshire man, with a leg broken and perforated by a piece of shell, so large that, had I not seen the wound, I should have regarded the story as a Munchausenism, beckoned me to come and help him, as he could not sit up, and both his bed and beard were getting plentifully anointed with soup.
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New Hampshire man, with a leg broken and perforated by a piece of shell, so large that, had I not seen the wound, I should have regarded the story as a Munchausenism, beckoned me to come and help him, as he could not sit up, and both his bed and beard were getting plentifully anointed with soup.
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Some of their narrations were romantic enough, with a possibility of their being true, but the greatest number savoured too much of Munchausenism to gain a moment's belief.
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