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Definition of "mystifications" [mystifications]

  • Plural form of mystification. (noun)

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Use "mystifications" in a sentence
  • "As William Michael Rossetti explained in his introduction to the 1901 facsimile of The Germ: "All about Chiaro dell 'Erma himself, Dresden and Dr. Aemmster, D'Agincourt, pictures at the Pitti Gallery, the author's visit to Florence in 1847, etc., are pure inventions or' mystifications '; but so realistically put that they have in various instances been relied upon and cited as truths.""
  • "It originated in, and to some extent still retains traces of, one of the silly and ill-bred "mystifications" in which the eighteenth and early nineteenth century delighted. ["
  • "Deserving of a Nobel Prize in patience to go along with the one he received in economics, Krugman argues, explains, provides facts, and demystifies mystifications."