false relation
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As for our former experience, we were in a false relation, and it made fools of us both.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
I cannot imagine how this false relation could have been dissolved more tenderly, more delicately, or more nobly.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
It has put us in a false relation which was exasperating me and puzzling you.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
The medical profession holds a most false relation to society.
From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred
Under a triforium, in blind, is a sculptured drapery; again a feature more pagan than Christian, but which is here more pleasing than when usually found in such a false relation.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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