Monosyllable

A word of one syllable, is termed a Monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a Trisyllable; a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

I thank God, amongst those millions of Vices I do inherit and hold from Adam, I have escaped one, and that a mortal enemy to Charity, the first and father-sin, not onely of man, but of the devil, Pride: a vice whose name is comprehended in a Monosyllable, but in its nature not circumscribed with

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

I thank GOD, amongst those millions of Vices I do inherit and hold from Adam, I have escaped one, and that a mortal enemy to Charity, the first and father-sin, not onely of man, but of the devil, Pride: a vice whose name is comprehended in a Monosyllable, but in its nature not circumscribed with a World.

The Second Part 1909

But the bow was lost upon Bruno, who had run out of the room, even while the great feat of The Unpronounceable Monosyllable was being triumphantly performed.

Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 1865

An excessive Loss is befallen me, if that Monosyllable can express the parting with so valuable a Person!

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

_Francick_, and _English_, in the _Monosyllable_ * Goð*, the

An apology for the study of northern antiquities Elizabeth Elstob 1719

Word is a _Monosyllable_; and tho 'he makes a seeming kind of Apology, yet he cannot forbear owning a secret Pleasure in what he had done.

An apology for the study of northern antiquities Elizabeth Elstob 1719

Or the last of a Word, if the following one be a Monosyllable that may be funk in pronouncing, and whose Construction depends on the preceeding Word on which the Accent is; as,

The Art of English Poetry 1702

Or the last of the Word, and that the following one be a Monosyllable govern'd by it, and that may be lower'd in its Pronunciation; as,

The Art of English Poetry 1702

Or, when the Accent is on the last of a Word, and that the next be a Monosyllable that may be sunk in its Pronunciation, and whose Construction is Govern'd by that word on which the Accent is; as,

The Art of English Poetry 1702