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.
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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
  • 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.
  • Especially, we attach importance to the producing process of panorama and cinematograph calibration, matching method of homonymy points and coherence of perspective relationship.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • French homonymy also gives you "rime riche" which is now illegal. Languagehat.com: PATAPOUFS! ANTHROPOPHAGES!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You may have noticed that homonymy and polysemy are very similar.
  • Rather, I'm interested in homonymy - in particular, the word quire.

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