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Definition of Polysyllables
1. polysyllable [n] - See also: polysyllable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysyllables
Literary usage of Polysyllables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"polysyllables generally follow the accent of the words from which they are ...
As a general rule, polysyllables accent the antepenult; as, Extrav'agant, ..."
2. The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification by Charlton Miner Lewis (1898)
"... use of polysyllables which remains to be noted. ... shows that it would
doubtless appear in polysyllables also as an independent fact, without this ..."
3. The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"polysyllables generally follow the accent of the words from •which they are ...
As a general rule, polysyllables accent the antepenult; as, Extravagant, ..."
4. National Pronouncing Speller by Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson (1858)
"2. The employment will promote your enjoyment and remove your annoyance. Royalty is
fond of loyalty. III. polysyllables. polysyllables A IN AGE. 1. ..."
5. It is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1869)
"Away went his life of shadows, — his career of watery polysyllables meandering
through the great desert into the Dead Sea. He awoke from his desk and saw ..."
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