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Definition of Polyonymy
1. [n -MIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyonymy
Literary usage of Polyonymy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1887)
"In each case there would be polyonymy, the employment of many names to denote
the same thing. In each case, their words would express truthfully the 2 In ..."
2. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1870)
"In each case there would be polyonymy, the employment of many names to denote
the same thing. In each case, their words would express truthfully the ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"If polyonymy and Homonymy cannot be shown, by a large selection of examples, ...
We are by no means denying the existence of the processes of polyonymy, ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson (1881)
"If polyonymy and Homonymy cannot be shown, by a large selection of examples, ...
We are by no means denying the existence of the processes of polyonymy, ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"If polyonymy and Homonymy cannot be shown, by a large selection of examples, ...
We are by no means denying the existence of the processes of polyonymy, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Again, no proof is given *f the existence of the processes called homonymy and
polyonymy. Mr Müller, ty way of proof, quotes the Vedas,—artificial poems ..."
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