Both Uses of
spurious
in
A Passage to India
- Each was too proud to increase the pressure, but neither withdrew it, and a spurious unity descended on them, as local and temporary as the gleam that inhabits a firefly.
Chpt 8 *spurious = false; or not genuine
- And the night that encircled them, absolute as it seemed, was itself only a spurious unity, being modified by the gleams of day that leaked up round the edges of the earth, and by the stars.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(spurious) false; or not genuine -- often seeming plausible, or intentionally deceptive