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Definition of Aphaereses
1. aphaeresis [n] - See also: aphaeresis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphaereses
Literary usage of Aphaereses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Res metrica Aetnae carminis by Joseph Franke (1898)
"II 70 III 45, 72, 102 V 4, 32 VI 1. 11 VIII 33, 107 IX 59 X 23, 52; in FIII: v.
IX 38. In Georg. 1. I duae aphaereses ..."
2. The History of Modern Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans B.C. 146, to by James Emerson Tennent (1830)
"... pro- theses, aphaereses, and innumerable other orthographic licences, occur
in abundance, but all bearing evidence that brevity, rather than euphony, ..."
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