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Definition of Doublets
1. n. pl. See Doublet, 6 and 7.
Definition of Doublets
1. Noun. (plural of doublet) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doublets
1. doublet [n] - See also: doublet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doublets
Literary usage of Doublets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"CHAPTER XXIV doublets AND HOMONYMS THE borrowing habits of the English language
... Thus dainty and dignity are doublets. They were taken into English at ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"doublets are words which, though apparently differing in form, are nevertheless,
from an etymological point of view, one ind tij same, or only differ in ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"V. LIST OF doublets doublets are words which, though apparently differing in form,
... In the following list, each pair of doublets is entered only once, ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like mine;
and buttoned their doublets up the breast, ..."
5. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"юЛ Preposition 'doublets' «, ab, abs ; l, ее, кг, 4с., on which see oh. ix.
§§ 12 and 29. § 137. Dropping of final consonant in Latin. ..."
6. The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism by James Hopwood Jeans (1908)
"Hence, as regards the contributions from shells for which r is small, we see that
the field produced at any point by all the doublets in these shells may be ..."
7. Horae Synopticae: Contributions to the Study of the Synoptic Problem by John Caesar Hawkins (1909)
"SECTION IV doublets THE 'doublets', or repetitions of the same or closely- similar
sentences in the same Gospel, are of great value in supplying hints as to ..."
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