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Definition of Homophonies
1. homophony [n] - See also: homophony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homophonies
Literary usage of Homophonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth (1832)
"These homophonies, however, produce no confusion in speech, partly owing to the
tones or accents, to the place which they hold in the sentence, ..."
2. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"The mode of transcription used in them was the so-called "historic" English
alphabet; homophonies are often produced by it where there are none in reality, ..."
3. The Mediterranean Race: A Study of the Origin of European Peoples by Giuseppe Sergi (1901)
"Those who, with Petric and Sayce, rely on the testimony of the homophonies from
the Old Testament, or from anthropological types revealed by Egyptian ..."
4. Criminology by Arthur MacDonald, Arthur Mac Donald (1893)
"The criminals show less lightness and more originality of form, except when they
lose themselves in the play of words or rhymes or homophonies, which the ..."
5. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"... poetry for two centuries, but they also banished from words related by mutual
conformity the too simple homophonies abused by the pseudo-Classicists. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"Thus in English, and still more in French, which is peculiarly a dialect of Latin
abounding in contractions, homophonies ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"... to exchange the radicals or homophonies. After this principle of homophony,
Janelli explains the five first hieroglyphics in the sixth line of the ..."
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