French homonymy also gives you "rime riche" which is now illegal. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PATAPOUFS! ANTHROPOPHAGES!] Reference
The choir/quire homonymy doesn't seem as active there as it is in Shakespeare, though. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHOIRS/QUIRES.] Reference
And this I shall do that we be not deceived with the homonymy of the word, nor be at a loss in the intention of those places of. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Aristotle's Categories] Reference
Here we have a confusion of two essentially different things through the homonymy in the word honour, and a consequent alteration of the point in dispute. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
The fact that an object can have many names (polynomy) and, con - versely, that the same name can be applied to several objects (homonymy) produced a confusion of names. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Criticismo occurs in Spanish, in Baltasar Gracián's El Heroe (1637), and sporadically in eighteenth-century Italian, but disappeared as there was no problem of homonymy. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference
I can attest that Cao Cao traditional transliteration Tsao Tsao is an extremely famous figure in Chinese history, and it's absurd that his name is censored because of homonymy!. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CENSORSHIP IN CHINESE MSN SPACES.] Reference
General homology, in Gegenbaur's sense, relates to resemblances of organs within the organism, and includes four kinds of resemblance, homotypy, homodynamy, homonomy and homonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
And yet, though indeed there be little relation between our real self and the other — because of their homonymy and their common body, the abnegation which makes us sacrifice easier duties, pleasures even, seems to others egoism. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
And, by a strange chance of homonymy, his title remained unchanged despite his change of estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Cesare Borgia]
Near-homonymy generates and sustains obvious suggestibles for such words as titter and hoary, and even farfetched. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Its types exceed to two hundreds, among which we mention antithesis, comparison, homonymy, allegory and assonance. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
There are many thousands of such jokes in every language, for they depend for their humor on polysemy or homonymy, which exists in all languages. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
I MUST confess myself to be (what I ever was) for a commonwealth: but give me leave to state the meaning of the word, seeing so much mischief hath taken covert under the homonymy thereof. From Wordnik.com. [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference
I will give two examples of the homonymy. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
He does not deny self-predication, but he contends instead that the predication of “man” in the case of the Form and in the case of the natural human being, even if it involves homonymy, does so not in usual sense, but “in the way that a model (paradeigma) is related to an image of itself, and specifically when the model generates the images in virtue of its essence, and causes them to revert to it” (115, 1 “ 3). From Wordnik.com. [Syrianus] Reference
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