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Imposure vs Imposture - What's the difference?

imposure | imposture |

As nouns the difference between imposure and imposture

is that imposure is (rare) the act of imposing while imposture is the act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

imposure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) The act of imposing.
  • *1963 , W. M. Kephart, "Experimental Family Organization: An Historico-Cultural Report on the Oneida Community," William M. Kephart, Marriage and Family Living , vol. 25, no. 3, p. 265:
  • *:Conformity was maintained through a patterned series of social controls which, contrary to the usual system of imposure , actually emanated from within the membership.
  • *1992 , Susan Tiefenbrun, "Semiotics and Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’," Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature , vol. 4, no. 2, p. 257:
  • *:Just as the imposure of a code limits the entropy of system, be it aesthetic, legal or other, so the semantic context of a text limits and controls the interpretation of its coded message.
  • *2007 , " Who is bothered by the gambling business?," New Europe: The European Weekly , 20 Nov. (retrieved 9 Feb. 2009):
  • *:According to the CORPORATE INCOME IMPOSURE LAW, a tax for numerical games such as toto, lotto or lottery will be imposed only on what’s left after you subtract the winnings from the income.

    • Synonyms

    * imposition

    References

    *" imposure" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .

    imposture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

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