Definition of Imposture. Meaning of Imposture. Synonyms of Imposture

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Definition of Imposture

Imposture
Imposture Im*pos"ture, n. [L. impostura: cf. F. imposture. See Impone.] The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. --Johnson. Syn: Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.

Meaning of Imposture from wikipedia

- decrease their international student quotas, international students may imposture as asylum claimants. Some impostors may do it for pathological reasons...
- Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1652. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the...
- Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (UK: Intellectual Impostures), first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by physicists Alan...
- French peasant of the 16th century, was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village...
- L'effroyable Imposture (or "The Horrifying Fraud") is the original French title of a highly controversial and discredited 2002 book by French journalist...
- Brian Lachlan MacKinnon (born 3 June 1963) is a Scottish impostor who gained notoriety by returning to his former school by posing as a teenager when he...
- into the Catholic church. Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture) challenges the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist...
- Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt and Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. These books are famous for their criticism...
- Vigne [fr], and starring Gérard Depardieu. It was based on a case of imposture in 16th century France, involving Martin Guerre. The film relates the...
- in Padua. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese priest, which claimed to be a history of...