10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPOCORISMA»
Discover the use of
hypocorisma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hypocorisma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The Athenians, by a tendency which they named Asteiotes or Hypocorisma,
systematically substituted pleasant for unpleasant names, and gilded the most
disagreeable subjects with tolerable and decorous designations.8 The left hand
being ...
Frederic William Farrar, 1865
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Hypatia: or, new foes with an old face
And Hypocorisma entered, pouting. " That Jewish fury is outside with a letter, and
has the impudence to say she wont let me bring it in ! " " Bring her in then. Quick !
" " I wonder what I am here for, if people have secrets that I am not to know," ...
'Ta en. Come in, slaves!' _ And Hypocorisma entered, poutm . gThat Jewish fury
is outside with a letter, and has the impudence to say she wont let me bring it in!' '
Bring her in then. Quick!' ' I wonder what I am here for, if eople have secrets that ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1852
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FRASERS M,AGAZINE FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY
I give you two to one she asks you to turn pagan.' ' What in ? Negro boys ? '
Anything you like.' ' Taken. Come in, slaves !' And Hypocorisma entered, pouting.
' That Jewish fury is outside with a letter, and has the impudence to say She wont
let ...
5
Hypatia ... The second edition
Taken. Come in, slaves!' And Hypocorisma entered, pouting. ' That Jewish fury is
outside with a letter, and has the impudence to say she wont let me bring it in!' '
Bring her in then. Quick!' ' I wonder what I am here for, if people have secrets that
...
6
Hypatia: New Foes With an Old Face: Easyread Super Large ...
What wine this is!' 'True Syrian – fire and honey; fourteen years old next vintage,
my Raphael. Out, Hypocorisma! See that he is not listening. The impudent rascal!
I was humbugged into giving two thousand gold pieces for him two years ago, ...
7
A History of Epidemics in Britain
If among the former class, the nearest is perhaps the hypocorisma, or attractive,
agreeable name for something that is not so nice in itself. If among the latter, we
shall hardly find a better than the metalepsis, which is a change more of mood ...
8
The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... pygmy, small, tiny, undersized, wee. n. hypocorisma, pet-name. din n. babble,
chirm, clamour, clangour, clash, clatter, commotion, crash, hubbub, hullabaloo,
noise, outcry, pandemonium, racket, randan, row, shout, uproar. dine v. banquet,
...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
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Hypatia, Or, New Foes with an Old Face
Out, Hypocorisma ! See that he is not listening. The impudent rascal ! I was
humbugged into giving two thousand gold pieces for him two years ago, he was
so pretty — they said he was only just rising thirteen — and he has been the
plague of ...
10
A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
1. The replacement in a line of verse of a metrical foot by a mirror-image foot, as
of an iamb by a trochee. 2. A rare synonym for metathesis. hypocorism /haı'
pɒkərızm/ n. (also hypocoristic /haıpəkə'rıstık/ or, rarely, hypocorisma /haıpəkə'
rızmə/) ...
