Literary notes about fabricate (AI summary)
In literature, the term "fabricate" is employed with diverse nuances that reflect both the act of creation and the art of deception. Writers may use it to describe the deliberate construction of falsehoods—whether a youth invents unashamed lies [1] or characters concoct malicious accusations for ulterior motives [2, 3]—thus emphasizing deceitful human tendencies. Simultaneously, the word appears in contexts that evoke the tangible act of making or assembling, as when an ingenious individual crafts wings for himself and his son [4] or repurposes materials to build a shelter [5]. Moreover, its usage can extend into realms of imagination and invention, suggesting that the human mind is capable of fabricating ideas from nothing [6, 7].
- A youth who can fabricate a falsehood so unblushingly as John did the foregoing is already on the road to ruin.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer - How could Aunt Letitia fabricate such monstrous and malignant lies?
— from Bess of the Woods by Warwick Deeping - By perversions and exaggerations of her language, he was to fabricate an accusation against her which would bring her head to the scaffold.
— from Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - So he set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch - A sheet of corrugated iron, a batten or two, and a few strands of wire were enough to enable him to fabricate a home in which he could live at ease.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir - To fabricate such a picture is the exact office of Imagination, and is its best definition.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 5, November 1843 by Various - Further, man is endued with a sort of creative power: he can fabricate images of things that have no existence.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord
