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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_170694" /> == | |||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_79439" /> == | |||
<p> A species of poetry or prose writing in which the vice or folly of the times is held up to ridicule, a species in which Horace and [[Juvenal]] excelled among the Romans, and Dryden, Pope, and [[Swift]] among us. </p> | <p> A species of poetry or prose writing in which the vice or folly of the times is held up to ridicule, a species in which Horace and [[Juvenal]] excelled among the Romans, and Dryden, Pope, and [[Swift]] among us. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_79439"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/satire Satire from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_79439"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/satire Satire from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
(2): ( a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A species of poetry or prose writing in which the vice or folly of the times is held up to ridicule, a species in which Horace and Juvenal excelled among the Romans, and Dryden, Pope, and Swift among us.
