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Protraction   Listen
noun
Protraction  n.  
1.
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate. "A protraction only of what is worst in life."
2.
(Surv.)
(a)
The act or process of making a plot on paper.
(b)
A plot on paper.





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"Protraction" Quotes from Famous Books



... shape of Virtus[552] and Pietas.[553] Again, while auguries and prophecies play a legitimate part in such a work, nothing can justify, and only the passion of the Silver Age for the supernatural can explain, the protraction of the scenes of augury at Thebes and Argos to 114 and 239 lines respectively. Equally disproportionate are the catalogues of the Argive and the Theban armies, making between them close on 400 lines.[554] Nor is imitation of Vergil the slightest justification ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler


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