Lavater

[ lah-vah-ter, lah-vah-ter ]

noun

1. Jo·hann Kas·par [yoh, -hahn , kahs, -pahr], 1741–1801, Swiss poet, theologian, and physiognomist.

Example Sentences

Attorney LaVater Massie-Banks told the judge that on July 18, days before the shooting, a child protective services employee told Weems her husband was facing accusations of sexually assaulting children at his wife’s day care.

From Washington Post

Attorney LaVater Massie-Banks said at Monday’s hearing that Shanteari Weems’s actions were more deliberate.

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Attorney LaVater Massie-Banks argued Shanteari Weems planned in advance to hurt her husband and outlined details in a notebook that was found in the hotel room.

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Physiognomy was popularized during Ducreux’s lifetime by Johann Kaspar Lavater, who wrote a tract illustrated in the English edition with drawings by William Blake and Johann Heinrich Fuseli of various facial “types” set against neutral backgrounds.

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It is amusing to find that Darwin narrowly escaped being rejected by Fitz-Roy, who, as a disciple of Lavater, doubted whether a man with such a nose as Darwin’s “could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage.”

From Project Gutenberg