Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A twofold reading or interpretation, as of a passage in the Bible.
Wiktionary
- n. A double reading or interpretation of a text
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text.
Examples
“Latham calls it, ‘dittology’ as Heyse, recurs in Italian,”
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missanthropist A two~fold or double reading or interpretation.
Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1897 May 17, 2008