What's the difference between impasture and imposture?
Impasture
Definition:
(v. t.) To place in a pasture; to foster.
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Imposture
Definition:
(n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
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(1) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(2) The authors suggest that disease simulation, peregrination, and imposture are secondary behavioral manifestations of pseudologia, which is deserving of additional study.
(3) Feelings of imposture within the CNS role can precipitate or exacerbate low self-esteem and lead to ineffective role implementation.
(4) Does a legal physician-patient relationship survive the imposturing of these patients?
(5) Imposture in a person undergoing analysis is, however, not only a function of individual character and psychopathology; it is also a function of certain inevitable requirements of the analytic situation which constitute a "pull" for its emergence.
(6) This paper deals with imposturous tendencies as ubiquitous and heterogeneous.
(7) Three case summaries illustrate the spectrum of imposturous tendencies.
(8) Quackery is characterized by the promotion of false and unproven health schemes for profit and does not necessarily involve imposture, fraud, or greed.