absonous

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin absonus, from ab- (“away”) + sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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absonous (comparative more absonous, superlative most absonous)

  1. (obsolete) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.][1]
    • 1665, Joseph Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica:
      absonous to our reason

References

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absonous”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
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