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单词 multivocal
释义 multivocal, a. and n.|mʌlˈtɪvəkəl|
[f. L. multus multi- + voc-āre to call, after univocal, equivocal.]
a. adj. Susceptible of many interpretations or meanings.
b. n. A word of such a kind. Hence mulˈtivocalness.
1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) III. 55 Whenever I meet with an ambiguous or multivocal word.1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 82 ‘Nature’, in such a sense, or swabháva, is one of the classical acceptations of the multivocal prakṛiti.1873Mod. Eng. 95 note, Respect, a word comparable, for its multivocalness, with the Latin ratio.Ibid. 169 Among the various blemishes which may disfigure a language, none..is more unphilosophical than multivocals.
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