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UK
/fˈɪɡmənt/
]
[ US /ˈfɪɡmɪnt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪɡmɪnt/ ]
NOUN
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a contrived or fantastic idea
a figment of the imagination
How To Use figment In A Sentence
- Wallach believes it was probably a figment of his imagination and that what matters is how proudly he told her his story.
- It was not a figment of their imagination or a dream or vision.
- a figment of the imagination
- The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
- The Eurosceptic view of an all-powerful European superstate is a figment of the imagination.
- God, and to come to the enjoyment of him by Jesus Christ, there will not want sufficient testimony against that putid figment of moral virtue being all our gospel holiness, or that the reparation of our natures and life unto God doth consist therein alone. Pneumatologia
- As with the unrequited love theme, also this was always a figment of the imagination, a displaced fantasy.
- I do not mean that all who have written or spoken on the subject had this conception of it, but I believe they who thought truly meant this; they did not suppose that in imputing righteousness there was a kind of figment, a self-deception in the mind of God; they did not mean that by an act of will He chose to consider that every act which Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
- They are no longer just figments of our imagination,’ he stressed.
- No matter how real they seemed, they were just figments of your imagination.