Both Uses of
visionary
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Yahoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.†
Chpt Intr.
- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(visionary) having or a person having unusual powers of foresight
or (less commonly): having or a person having impractical ideas