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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_147264" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_147264" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. </p> <p> (3): (n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. </p> <p> (4): (n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_52202" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_52202" /> == | ||
