exponencen.
/ɛkˈspəʊnəns/ rare.
The function of an exponent of something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
undoinga1330
expositiona1340
declarationc1374
declaringc1374
clearingc1380
expoundingc1380
explanationa1382
interpretation1382
exploitingc1390
unfolding1483
explicating1531
explication1537
clearance?1548
elucidation1570
explaining1576
manifestation1576
untwining1577
illustration1581
untwisting1591
eviscerating1599
unclouding1601
enodation1603
opening1611
dilucidation1615
unsnarling1640
declarement1646
enucleation1650
illumination1656
dilucidatinga1660
luciferousness1665
clarifying1677
unravelling1713
disentanglement1751
exegesis1770
disambiguation1827
evisceration1831
keyword1848
clarificationa1866
exponence1880
exponency1880
straightening1900
demystification1964
1880 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. For the vocal exponence of [sacred music]..she is exceptionally gifted.
Derivatives
exˈponency n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > realization of feature or category
exponency1880
realization1950
exponent1957
exponence1960
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
undoinga1330
expositiona1340
declarationc1374
declaringc1374
clearingc1380
expoundingc1380
explanationa1382
interpretation1382
exploitingc1390
unfolding1483
explicating1531
explication1537
clearance?1548
elucidation1570
explaining1576
manifestation1576
untwining1577
illustration1581
untwisting1591
eviscerating1599
unclouding1601
enodation1603
opening1611
dilucidation1615
unsnarling1640
declarement1646
enucleation1650
illumination1656
dilucidatinga1660
luciferousness1665
clarifying1677
unravelling1713
disentanglement1751
exegesis1770
disambiguation1827
evisceration1831
keyword1848
clarificationa1866
exponence1880
exponency1880
straightening1900
demystification1964
1880 Harper's Mag. May 908 Streets and avenues, squares and rows, enough to require the exponency of a good-sized directory.
1960 Jrnl. Canad. Linguistic Assoc. 6 ii. 133 Firth's theory of exponency is treated in much greater detail in my paper mentioned in the summary.
Draft additions 1993
The realization of a linguistic category or feature in speech or writing; also, the relation between categories, etc. and their exponents.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > realization of feature or category
exponency1880
realization1950
exponent1957
exponence1960
1960 [see exponency n. at Derivatives].
1966 J. Ellis in C. E. Bazell et al. In Memory of J. R. Firth 80 Formal items also have a contextual meaning... We do not speak in the other direction of a phonological meaning of formal items (but rather of the phonological exponence of formal distinctions).
1979 Trans. Philol. Soc. 69 Typically, though, for an inflecting language, the exponence of particular properties by particular formatives is linked to relevant contrast within particular paradigms.
1986 Word 1985 36 140 The relation between function and set is exponence.
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