Definitions
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- noun The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.
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- noun The quality, in
phonetics , of being formed by the aid of theteeth .
Etymologies
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dental + -ism
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Examples
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There was too much suffering and pain there, too much psychological complexity, too much eerie mechanistic transcen - dentalism.
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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This was a fresh enlightenment to him and rapidly became one of the major sources of New England transcen - dentalism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER 1968
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“Puritanism” and “Transcen - dentalism” are religious or philosophical notions.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968
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