How To Use Homonymy In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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But, beyond that, homonymy seems to have been, even for Plato, no more than a source of ambiguity for wordplay.
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We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
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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
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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
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The choir/quire homonymy doesn't seem as active there as it is in Shakespeare, though.
Languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.
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The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy.
Notes on Aristotle's Categories
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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.
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Especially, we attach importance to the producing process of panorama and cinematograph calibration, matching method of homonymy points and coherence of perspective relationship.
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I can attest that Cao Cao traditional transliteration Tsao Tsao is an extremely famous figure in Chinese history, and it's absurd that his name is censored because of homonymy!
Languagehat.com: CENSORSHIP IN CHINESE MSN SPACES.
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And this I shall do that we be not deceived with the homonymy of the word, nor be at a loss in the intention of those places of
Pneumatologia
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French homonymy also gives you "rime riche" which is now illegal.
Languagehat.com: PATAPOUFS! ANTHROPOPHAGES!
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In doing this, lexicographers generally take the view that homonymy relates to different words whose forms have converged while polysemy relates to one word whose meanings have diverged or radiated.
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Ear (of corn) and ear (the organ) are examples of homonymy, because etymologically the former derives from Old English éar while the latter derives from Old English éare.
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You may have noticed that homonymy and polysemy are very similar.
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Rather, I'm interested in homonymy - in particular, the word quire.