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Definition of Homonymies
1. homonymy [n] - See also: homonymy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homonymies
Literary usage of Homonymies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1878)
"... continued to use them ; and in the homonymies which out of one object, designated
by various epithets, have made so many different beings or persons. ..."
2. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the by Friedrich Max Müller (1879)
"... the meaning of which had been forgotten by those who nevertheless continued
to use them ; and in the homonymies which out of one object, designated by ..."
3. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1809)
"... and I suppose as many characters ; whereas, he reckons, irj the Latin language,
thirty thousand radicals, computing the several homonymies. VOL. II. ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"With the abundance of undoubted Egyptian homonymies before us, it will need but
little trouble to trace back to particular central radical meanings certain ..."
5. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1901)
"... The only fact which we make out, independent of these legenda, is, that there
existed c^iin homonymies and certain affinities of religious worship, ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1879)
"... undoubted Egyptian homonymies before us, it will need but little trouble to
trace back to particular central radical meanings certain verbs of many ..."
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