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mode

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Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

Variety; gradation; degree.

Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.

The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

Same as Mood.

The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. Montesquieu

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. Audrey Hepburn

The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach. Persian Proverb

When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt. Latin Proverb

Demonstration is the best mode of instruction. American Proverb

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