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pseudomorphosis

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pseudomorphism.

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Examples

  • The growing understanding of classical ideas and forms led to another specific Renaissance phenomenon, called by Panofsky “pseudomorphosis”:

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • Aside from exposing the contra-traditional attitude of the monks of St. Anne's, this action revealed how Orthodox criteria had become obscured, thus affirming, also for Greece, what the ever-memorable Fr. Georges Florovsky called '' pseudomorphosis. ''

    orrologion 2009

  • But this early culture found itself beset by what Spengler called “pseudomorphosis”—when an older culture superimposes itself so massively over a younger one that the weaker entity can’t get its breath and fails to develop its own self-consciousness.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • But this early culture found itself beset by what Spengler called “pseudomorphosis”—when an older culture superimposes itself so massively over a younger one that the weaker entity can’t get its breath and fails to develop its own self-consciousness.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • But this early culture found itself beset by what Spengler called “pseudomorphosis”—when an older culture superimposes itself so massively over a younger one that the weaker entity can’t get its breath and fails to develop its own self-consciousness.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • But this early culture found itself beset by what Spengler called “pseudomorphosis”—when an older culture superimposes itself so massively over a younger one that the weaker entity can’t get its breath and fails to develop its own self-consciousness.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • I tried to explain to my counselor: “Sure, I’ve been told about ‘cultural pseudomorphosis’ and the rest.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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