deaf-muteadj.n.
a. adj. Deaf and dumb.
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1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 322/2 [Deaf and Dumb] In all these conditions of deafness, the person is consequently mute, or dumb. Hence the expression Deaf-Mute, as used in the continental languages, and Deaf and Dumb, as used in England and America.
1865 Year-bk. Med. 1864 (New Sydenham Soc.) 479 A deaf-mute child.
b. n. One who is deaf and dumb.
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1881 H. James Portrait of Lady xxv, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 410/1 He might as well address her in the deaf-mute's alphabet.
Derivatives
ˈdeaf-ˈmuteness n.
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deaf-mutism1865
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surdomutism1880
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 109 The deaf-muteness of Zacharias.
ˈdeaf-ˈmutism n. the condition of a deaf-mute.
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dumbnessc1380
speechlessness1580
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mutism1824
deaf-mutism1865
deaf-muteness1874
surdomutism1880
ineffableness1883
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [noun] > deafness > deafness and dumbness
deaf-dumbness1822
deaf-mutism1865
deaf-muteness1874
surdomutism1880
1865 Year-bk. Med. 1864 (New Sydenham Soc.) 318 Congenital deaf-mutism.
1874 D. B. St. J. Roosa Dis. Ear 515 Deaf-muteism is caused by diseases of the middle and internal ears.
1884 A. J. Ellis in Athenæum 12 Jan. 55/2 This art [of lip-reading], the keystone of the modern bridge from deaf-mutism to deaf sociality.
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