Significats de purely fictitious en anglès

Thucydides honestly tells us that some of these discourses are purely fictitious.

The special attribution may be purely fictitious but the individual referred to enjoys an established reputation.

And yet it was but a fiction, a purely fictitious obligation, self-imposed by a sentimental society.

It is therefore unnecessary for me to add that the attendant circumstances and characters are purely fictitious.-B.

They might be ornamental or purely fictitious.

Serena spoke with authority upon all subjects, on the strength of a purely fictitious affair of the heart.

Yet the play is purely fictitious.

Instead of positing a purely fictitious process, the process which it alleges proves to be one actually going on around us.

It may be considered as purely fictitious, but every Ottawa and Chippewa to this day believes it to have actually occurred.

Therefore it was not for any real value, but for a purely fictitious value that Judge Blount invited him to dinner.

He, with all the figures in this narrative is a purely fictitious person, the vehicle for an idea, neither more nor less.

Many plausible arguments are proffered to prove that Uitlanders' grievances and irritations are purely fictitious, but few, I venture to say, will bear examination.

Newspaper reporters followed all his movements, especially in athletics, and he was the victim of many exaggerated and often purely fictitious accounts of his doings.

"Yes, but the road is real, whereas I understand your embarrassment through the attentions of ladies is purely fictitious."