Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing mute; wilfully mute; dumb.
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- adjective
Silent ; unable or refusing to speak.
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Examples
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The simple truth has to be told: how he loved his country, and for another and a broader love, growing out of his first passion, fought it; and being small by comparison, and finding no giant of the Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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