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Definition of Orthoepist
1. Noun. A practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely).
Definition of Orthoepist
1. Noun. someone who studies the way words are pronounced ¹
2. Noun. (archaic spelling of orthoepist) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orthoepist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthoepist
Literary usage of Orthoepist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Four Thousand Five by Alfred Ayres (1894)
"This word is very frequently—perhaps most commonly among mathematicians—pronounced
Mp-ot'e-nuse; but Smart is the only orthoepist that sanctions that ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1882)
"By ALFRED AYRES, author of "The orthoepist." "It ii wisely written, and, ...
The orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Three Thousand Five ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"An orthoepist ought not to be cocksure and dogmatic. ... The orthoepist who goes
farther, and dogmatically asserts that a given pronunciation is correct and ..."
4. Abridged History of the United States .. by Emma Willard (1852)
"THE orthoepist. CONTAINING A SELECTION OF THE WORDS OF THE ENGLISH ... The latest
edition of Webster's Dictionary is the standard for the ' orthoepist. ..."
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