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Meanings of figurative sense in английском

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Usage of figurative sense in английском
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Very probably, writers on yoga employ this language in a figurative sense.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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My northern friend was using the word in a figurative sense.
The Irish Times
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There is no need to lose our heads-inthe figurative sense at least.
The good son: a novel
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I use the word 'founded' in a literal as well as figurative sense.
Val d'Arno / Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent ...
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No, not in the usual figurative sense of that term.
The Irish Times
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To "blow-up" effectively, whether in a literal or figurative sense, is difficult.
In the Track of the Troops
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He has come home, not in the figurative sense, but in the quite literal sense.
News.com.au
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The adjective "pure" must be understood in the figurative sense of the mantram.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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In a figurative sense he'd gone the extra mile.
The Guardian
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Through our thought-forces we have creative power, not in a figurative sense, but in reality.
What All The World's A-Seeking / The Vital Law of True Life, Tru...
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Take your Johnson, and look out the adjective Scurvy, in its higher or figurative sense.
Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
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Is this "woman Jezebel" to be taken in a literal or figurative sense?
Notes on the Apocalypse
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Dalzell had used the word "gig" in a figurative sense.
Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard ...
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Death is frequently used in a figurative sense to denote misery, and life to signify happiness.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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We must, therefore, necessarily endeavour after some figurative sense, not liable to so insuperable an objection.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
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This word is now used much oftener in a figurative sense than to describe the actual thing.
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