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procrustean beds

procrustean beds is the plural of procrustean bed.

Meaning of procrustean bed

Noun

procrustean bed (plural procrustean beds)

  1. An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.
    • Merely to jingle common-place ideas in rhyme, may be easy enough; but to make fine sense, animated and appropriate description, and beautiful imagery, recline gracefully on that Procrustean bed, is about as easy as to compose music like Handel or Hedyen, and to paint like Reynolds, Romney, and...1787, Anna Seward, letter to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy dated 10 October, 1787, in Letters of Anna Seward, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1811, Volume 1, p. 342

Noun capitalized: Procrustean Beds

Procrustean Beds

  1. (plural) plural of Procrustean Bed

Questions about procrustean beds

What is procrustean beds the plural of?
Procrustean beds is the plural of procrustean bed.
What part of speech is procrustean beds?
Procrustean beds is a noun.

Words near procrustean beds in the dictionary

  1. Procrus
  2. procrusculum
  3. procrustean
  4. Procrustean assignment
  5. procrustean bed
  6. procrustean beds
  7. procrusteanism
  8. procrusteanize
  9. procrusteanized
  10. procrusteanizes
  11. procrusteanizing

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