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Procrustean

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him.



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"Procrustean" Quotes from Famous Books



... Englishman coming among you is soon assured that you do not wish to attack Canada. Apart from considerations of morality and honor, he finds every man of sense here aware that extent of territory is your danger, if you wish to be one nation,—and further, that freedom of development, and not procrustean centralization, is the best thing for the New as well as for the Old World. But the mass of our people have not been among you; nor do they know that the hot words sedulously repeated to them by our Southern ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various


Words linked to "Procrustean" :   Procrustes, procrustean standard, procrustean bed, procrustean rule


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