Figurative Meaning
The word can be used as a figure of speech to describe the "face" that people show other people, as opposed to what they really think or do.
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Famous quotes containing the words figurative and/or meaning:
“Church neglect
And figurative use have pretty well
Reduced him to a shadow of himself.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of the words by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)