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- noun Plural form of
decoding .
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Examples
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When a single name turns out to admit of two or more decodings, sometimes these will be mutually complementary and should therefore be endorsed in combination.
Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006
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Sometimes instead we are forced to choose between rival decodings of the same word.
Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006
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If Socrates is read as actually dismissing naturalism, it is almost inevitable that his naturalistic etymological decodings of words, to which well over half the dialogue is devoted, should be taken as not seriously intended, and in fact as making fun of the entire etymological practice.
Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006
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