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Pisgahs

Pisgahs is the plural of Pisgah.

Meaning of Pisgah

Noun

Pisgah (plural Pisgahs)

  1. (attributive, figuratively, often) A glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
    • Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career.1992, Bryan Collier Short, Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development, page 153

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Questions about Pisgahs

What is Pisgahs the plural of?
Pisgahs is the plural of Pisgah.

Words near Pisgahs in the dictionary

  1. pisculent
  2. piscy
  3. piseog
  4. piseogs
  5. Pisgah
  6. Pisgahs
  7. pish
  8. pish and posh
  9. pish and tosh
  10. pish pash
  11. pish posh

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