phasis
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of phasis
1650–60; < New Latin < Greek phásis appearance, equivalent to pha- (base of phaínein to show) + -sis -sis
Example Sentences
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I had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me.
From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas
He had seen human nature in a new phasis, and now he engaged in literary correspondence with several of his schoolfellows.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel
The enormous apparatus of literature at the present time is suitable only to a peculiar phasis and manner of existence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
This phasis of the affair would have been by far the preferable one; but the attorney and his client probably disagreed.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
My last remark is on that notablest phasis of Burns’s history,—his visit to Edinburgh.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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