Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
monument .
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Examples
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I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an 'refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Paunch's monyment -- I found, my lady, I'd forgot my cane.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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An 'he's not a bad' eart, 'asn't Master Percy, an' maybe he might put up a monyment and a hepithet 'imself for me if he did but know I'd done that for' im.
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In arter years a common monyment was erected by the gen'rous people of Quebeck, aided by a bully Earl named George
Artemus Ward 1865
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And the noble lord wept bitterly and resolved never to have another step-mother, and he built a monyment with a white angel to her memory '. "
In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915
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