The whole speech seemed to be factitious so I could not believe in its content. From LearnThat.org.
Brokers created a factitious demand for stocks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm. ,a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves. From Dictionary.com.
Munchausen s syndrome is one of group of conditions known as factitious disorders. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Munchausen's Syndrome: Stranger (and More Dangerous) Than Fiction] Reference
In that context I feel like it isn't the established word factitious, but rather a new one meaning "half-factual, half-fictional". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.] Reference
The condition known as factitious disorder makes its sufferers believe that they are about to die at the hands of a terminal illness. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist based in California, has studied cases of what's called factitious victimization for nearly three decades. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
It is in a class of disorders known as factitious disorders which involve "illnesses" whose symptoms are either self-induced or falsified by the patient. From Wordnik.com. [Polls: Hillary Narrowly Edges Obama In Four States, Huckabee Surging With GOP] Reference
The word "factitious" posed a problem for Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.] Reference
This is a comment to a previous entry: on May 13th there was some discussion of the word "factitious". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HOBGOBLINS.] Reference
It may be that the growing celebrity of the book imparted by degrees a kind of factitious renown to its author. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
Context would suggest that 'factitious' refers to something which is fictitious, but which is ultimately based on fact. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.] Reference
Spencer criticizes this conception of Hobbes as representing society as a "factitious" and artificial rather than a "natural" product. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
A factitious metal, consisting of copper and zinc. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
Nothing factitious, self-conscious or impious bides in you. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
A factitious taste had taken the place of honest and simple likings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Richmond, we had such duty to perform, without any factitious reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Captain Bonhomme's countenance quickly lost its factitious cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
As for the Cyprus stole, its location alone gives it a factitious importance. From Wordnik.com. [Assyrian Historiography] Reference
She had a keen appreciation for genuine values, but none whatever for factitious ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
No human being succeeds in being absolutely factitious in his home or in his writings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A transparent, solid, brittle, factitious body, produced by fusing sand with an alkali. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
All these measures being taken, Lassaigne constructed a factitious body in linden wood. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
We fall under the glamour of the luminous but factitious atmosphere that surrounded them. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
We suspect, indeed, that a part of the popularity of this class of writers is factitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
Hence those who create factitious unity of creed render these fructifications impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
Oddly, in this era of luridly factitious memoirs, Price's comes with unimpeachable credentials. From Wordnik.com. [Unable to Forget] Reference
A year passed away; these fine friendships cooled: 't is the fate of these factitious tendernesses. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Many say that it is a factitious power from which one comes at last to deliver one's self by resisting it. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
Closely allied to freshness are spontaneity and inner necessity, the signs of a genuine, as opposed to a factitious, expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
You have as yet acquired no factitious tastes; you still retain the power of enjoying the simple pleasures of innocent childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
In this versatility she has been likened to Mme. de Genlis, whom she resembled also in her moral teaching and her factitious sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Medieval romance, in its most characteristic and most influential form, is almost as factitious and professional as modern Gothic architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Then, in the midst of that factitious joy, she would turn her back and I could see her shudder until the flowers she had placed in her hair trembled. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She could easily have made a mark upon her time through her intellectual gifts without the factitious aid of the men with whom her name is associated. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
It seems as if each one, when thus taken by surprise, loses the factitious character that the world or habit has given him, and appears in his true colors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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