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Freytag

[ frahy-tahk ]

noun

  1. Gus·tav [goos, -tahf], 1816–95, German novelist, playwright, and journalist.


Freytag

/ ˈfraitaːk /

noun

  1. FreytagGustav18161895MGermanWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1816–95, German novelist and dramatist; author of the comedy Die Journalisten (1853) and Soll und Haben (1855), a novel about German commercial life
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As for the worthy Freytag, he felicitated himself highly on the way he had handled that dabbler in poeshy.

Freytag assigns to the second act, as a rule, the Steigerung or heightening--the working-up, one might call it--of the interest.

In discussing what Freytag calls the erregende Moment, we might have defined it as the starting-point of the tension.

Our fellow traveller, brother Freytag has his bed at present upon a heap of shavings.

Kreuzburg, which became a town in 1252, was the birthplace of the novelist Gustav Freytag.

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