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Definition of Psellism
1. n. Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.
Definition of Psellism
1. Noun. indistinct pronunciation; stammering; a speech disorder ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psellism
1. any defect in articulation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psellism
Literary usage of Psellism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science of Voice Production and Voice Preservation: For Use of Speakers and by Gordon Holmes (1880)
"Stammering and Stuttering, or psellism. Such affections have been well known from
the earliest times, and are often alluded to by Hippocrates;1 but ..."
2. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1818)
"What Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen have said on it, is hardly worth quoting,
and their silence on the treatment of psellism, seems to have devoted it to ..."
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