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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mountebanks in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mountebanks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of mountebanks in a Sentence

  1. Arthur Rimbaud:

    For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

    Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

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