homonymy

How To Use homonymy In A Sentence

• Criticismo occurs in Spanish, in Baltasar Gracián's El Heroe (1637), and sporadically in eighteenth-century Italian, but disappeared as there was no problem of homonymy. LITERARY CRITICISM
• And yet, though indeed there be little relation between our real self and the other — because of their homonymy and their common body, the abnegation which makes us sacrifice easier duties, pleasures even, seems to others egoism. Time Regained
• In the case of homonymy it could be argued that we are dealing, strictly speaking, with two different words which happen to share the same phonological form.
• But, beyond that, homonymy seems to have been, even for Plato, no more than a source of ambiguity for wordplay.
• We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
• Here we have a confusion of two essentially different things through the homonymy in the word honour, and a consequent alteration of the point in dispute. The Art of Controversy
• The fact that an object can have many names (polynomy) and, con - versely, that the same name can be applied to several objects (homonymy) produced a confusion of names. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• The choir/quire homonymy doesn't seem as active there as it is in Shakespeare, though. Languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.
• The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy. Notes on Aristotle's Categories
• Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.