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contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality

Definitions

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  • noun nonce word A nonsense word with no intelligible meaning.

Etymologies

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Coined by Joyce; apparently a blend of consubstantial, transubstantiation, magnificent, magnify, Magnificat, Jew, bang, and -ity; perhaps modelled on transmagnificandubandanciality, which had been coined by James Clarence Mangan in 1884.

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Examples

  • Warring his life long upon the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Warring his life long upon the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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