Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Synonyms.
- [In the following quotation the word is erroneously treated as a singular, with an English plural synonymas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural obsolete Synonyms.
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- noun obsolete
synonyms
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Examples
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Wisdom, life, love, beauty, the beauty of holiness, are all 'synonyma' of the Holy Spirit.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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We see, moreover, that various synonyma of âkâ/s/a are employed to denote Brahman.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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It is rather singular that the ordinary synonyma for a sword should be "brand."
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(Jeremy Taylor) or ‘synonymum’ (Hacket), and ‘synonyma’ (Milton, prose), became severally ‘synonym’ and ‘synonyms’; ‘syntaxis’ (Fuller) became
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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I wish him to respect in me, the name of liberty is in my mind nothing else but the synonyma of justice.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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M864.a. Nondum floruit, sedad synonyma citata pertmere suspicor.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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I have given, amongst other select synonyma, a reference to every figured Aloe in my possession; so far at least as they be - long to the plants I have described.
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Who knows what changes have taken place in the Egyptian tongue, during so many cen - turies; what words, what synonyma, what proper, what figurative expressions may have been lost or substituted for each other in the course of so many ages?
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