Crossword-Solution: MONOSYLLABISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monosyllabism | n. | The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables. |
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| the state of being monosyllabic | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MONOSYLLABISM (4)
Philologists frequently blame their own ignorance and impotence, if they do not always succeed in reducing plurisyllabism to monosyllabism, and they trust in the future.
Paul--as a mere _spermologos_, "a seed-pecker!"[508] or "picker-up of learning's crumbs." Is all this petty monosyllabism fit teaching for persons like us? Are we to be taught by copybooks? Do we need the censorship of this Old Morality? On whom, full of the fire of God, Isaiah turned, and told these scornful tipsters, who lorded it over God's heritage in Jerusalem, that, since they disdained his stammerings, God would teach them by men of strange lips and alien tongue.
For obvious reasons, they are more abundant in languages which tend toward monosyllabism, such as the Chinese and the Maya, and in a less degree the ancient Coptic.
Taine and others have cited several observations of the same order.[55] According to some authors, all language that has reached complete development has perforce passed through the three successive periods of monosyllabism, polysynthetism, and analysis; so that the idioms that remain monosyllabic or agglutinative would correspond to an arrest in development.