Word of the Day: ONOMATOUS


ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὀνόµατὄνοµα (name) + -ous


PRONUNCIATION
uh-NOM-uh-tuhss


EXAMPLE
“…For our own parts, we will not be forward to remove the disguise, and, indeed, in very many cases we should as a rule prefer the anonymous to the onomatous mode of addressing the public…”

From: The Spectator
A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art
Volume the Forty-Second, 1869

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