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Meanings of caprice in English
Caprice, an English translation of the Italian word “capriccio”, which refers to a category of paintings, usually presents a group of architecture in a fictional manner.
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Usage of caprice in English
1
Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
2
You've insulted me; I can be very vicious, simply out of caprice.
3
Poets have, in all ages, called this the caprice of the waves.
4
The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
5
There was, perhaps, in his conduct something of the caprice of contempt.
6
For in my heart I feel that this remorse is but caprice.
7
Woman is regarded as only a plaything to gratify the animal caprice.
8
The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind.
9
Of a surety, this is the maddest caprice the Hathors ever wrought.
10
In other words she was constant and true, without whims or caprice.
11
Perhaps I was a fool or the victim of some supernal caprice.
12
In her suffering condition, she was liable to sudden fits of caprice.
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I verily believe we are directing the girl to dissect a caprice.
14
The caprice may strike them to-morrow to cut us out for good.
15
That it was not innate caprice he was more and more certain.
16
Perhaps I was a fool, or the victim of some supernatural caprice.
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