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gally
[ gal-ee ]
verb (used with object)
- to frighten or scare.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gally1
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Example Sentences
Section I of Gally's essay, thoroughly conventional in nature, is omitted here.
It is Gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar.
Gally breaks sharply with earlier character-writers like Overbury who, he thinks, have departed from the Theophrastan method.
Human nature, says Gally, is full of subtle shadings and agreeable variations which the v character ought to exploit.
Gally's essay thus reflects fundamental changes in the English attitude toward human nature and its literary representation.
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