What does air drawn mean?
Air drawn means visionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
visionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality.
[…] but there are some hints which, considering what afterwards did take place, lead me to suspect that even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes.
But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a vestryman who in appearance and speech and actions, and in essential beliefs, differed not at all from his associates […]
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Air drawn means visionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality.
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[…] but there are some hints which, considering what afterwards did take place, lead me to suspect that even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes.
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