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  • noun archaic mix, mixture

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Examples

  • David's thin, romantic, bronzed face, with its queer comminglement of adolescence and genius, was fortunately in the shadows cast by the curtains of the bed canopy.

    Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

  • Therefore by every plant which scatters its seed and by the moist warm garden which receives and nourishes it, by the comminglement of bloodshed with pleasure, by the joy that mimics anguish with sighs and shudderings, and by the contentment which mimics death, -- by all these do we invoke thee.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • The other poet evinced an awkward comminglement of consternation and pity.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • No one of these people, as he reflected in a comminglement of yearning and complacency, had ever comprehended the real Felix Kennaston as he existed, in all his hampered strugglings and meannesses, his inadequacies and his divine unexercised potentialities.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • The other poet evinced an awkward comminglement of consternation and pity.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • Villa Medici -- a liquid comminglement of Corot and Constable, as has been pointed out -- prove this man of protean gifts to have anticipated modern discoveries in vibrating atmospheric effects and colour-values.

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.

    Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

  • In a word, Velasquez was a puzzling comminglement of the classic and the realist.

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • The shadows of the men, instead of an unintelligible comminglement with the dusk, were now sharp and distinct, and the light grotesquely duplicated them till the cave seemed full of beings who were not there a moment before -- strange gnomes, clumsy and burly, slow of movement, but swift and mysterious of appearance and disappearance.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • And that before it suffered comminglement with Errol’s noxious spit.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

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