homonymy

• “The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy.”

  Notes on Aristotle's Categories

• “Here we have a confusion of two essentially different things through the homonymy in the word honour, and a consequent alteration of the point in dispute.”

  The Art of Controversy

• “French homonymy also gives you "rime riche" which is now illegal.”

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• “I can attest that Cao Cao traditional transliteration Tsao Tsao is an extremely famous figure in Chinese history, and it's absurd that his name is censored because of homonymy!”

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• “The choir/quire homonymy doesn't seem as active there as it is in Shakespeare, though.”

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• “And yet, though indeed there be little relation between our real self and the other — because of their homonymy and their common body, the abnegation which makes us sacrifice easier duties, pleasures even, seems to others egoism.”

  Time Regained

• “The fact that an object can have many names (polynomy) and, con - versely, that the same name can be applied to several objects (homonymy) produced a confusion of names.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Criticismo occurs in Spanish, in Baltasar Gracián's El Heroe (1637), and sporadically in eighteenth-century Italian, but disappeared as there was no problem of homonymy.”

  LITERARY CRITICISM

• “And this I shall do that we be not deceived with the homonymy of the word, nor be at a loss in the intention of those places of”

  Pneumatologia

• “God is assigned unto the Lord Christ, — as those wherein God is said “to lay down his life for us,” and to “purchase his church with his own blood,” to come and be “manifest in the flesh,” — wherein no homonymy or equivocation can take place.”

  Christologia

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