Definition of Paronymic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paronymic

paronomasia
paronomasiac
paronomasiacs
paronomasias
paronomasic
paronomasies
paronomastic
paronomastical
paronomasy
paronychia
paronychiae
paronychial
paronychias
paronychium
paronym
paronymic (current term)
paronymies
paronymous
paronymously
paronyms
paronymy
paroophoritic cyst
paroophoritis
paroophoron
paroquet
paroquets
paroral membrane
parorchidium
parorexia

Literary usage of Paronymic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"*"ertain paronymic changes are to be avoided on account ot some undignified suggestion connected therewith ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"Certain paronymic changes are to be avoided on account of some undignified suggestion connected therewith ; for example, medic is the legitimate ..."

3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"and are readily recognized by all, while yet conforming to the "genius" of each language. The paronymic Advantages of ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1874)
"Afterwards it was taken to be a designation of the status of the person named in the paronymic, as A son of the Swineherd B. But the difficulty of supposing ..."

5. The Philosophy of Don Hasdai Crescas by Meyer Waxman (1920)
"Such kind of attributes it is not impossible to apply to God, for they do not imply any plurality, change, or division. This form of attributes is paronymic ..."

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