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Definition of Paronyms
1. paronym [n] - See also: paronym
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paronyms
Literary usage of Paronyms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools by John Mitchell Bonnell (1867)
"Words are said to be paronyms when they are derived from the same root, ...
For instance, the following words are paronyms, being all derived from the Latin ..."
2. First French composition by Philip Schuyler Allen, Franck Louis Schoell (1920)
"The French language teems with homonyms and paronyms; that is to say, words which
are spelled alike or nearly alike and words that are pronounced alike ..."
3. Rhetorical Method: A Concise Treatment of the Topics Belonging to Rhetoric by Henry W. Jameson (1880)
"paronyms are words derived from the same root or stem. 112. ... Richardson's
excellent dictionary is arranged so as to define paronyms together. 113. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"And although, in some cases the formation of these paronyms may involve the
apparent coining of a new word, yet they are not really new, and no more are ..."
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