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. rare 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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phrontistery - d
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dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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When In Entropic~al English Locales.....
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englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
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No Ap-ology
Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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Occult / Religious
evangelism, exorcism, fideism, Gnosticism, Hasidism, Hebraism, henotheism, hylotheism, idolism, indifferentism, infralapsarianism, ipsedixitism and 107 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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linguistics
holophrasis, polyglot, interrobang, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, malapropism, sesquipedalian, hapax legomenon, portmanteau, tautology, epigram and 79 more...
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-ology
hippology, dittology, glottology, noology, polemology, speleology, gerontology, orology, anemology, kinesiology, teratology, thau and 3 more...
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wordilicious
eater/dieter of words
dittology, rifacimento, voracious verbivore, vigorous manipula..., Crayola, ironic, hoi polloi, clapperclaw, zenzizenzizenzic, verbicide, verbium slayer
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missanthropist A two~fold or double reading or interpretation.
Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1897 May 17, 2008