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He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time.

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adjective Of, including, or expressed in several languages; multilingual: a polylingual software program.
adjective Using or able to use several languages: a polylingual translator.

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He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. — AvaxHome RSS:
Juan de Oliver, the pioneer Franciscan Tagalist was still living and available for consultation, and the polylingual Jesuit, Francisco — Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
They sent some of these boys through comparison dictionaries in foreign tongues and then had their language checked by specialists who were truly polylingual. — The Fourth R
They had sworn themselves to secrecy, had heard MacLeod's story with a polylingual burst of pious or blasphemous exclamations, and then they had scattered, each to the work assigned him. — The Mercenaries
Still, it is "likely that Scala and some other languages will gain programmer share on the JVM platform and that the platform will become more polylingual than it is now," Odersky adds. — Computerworld News