单词 | word-splitting |
释义 | > as lemmasword-splitting word-splitting n. ΚΠ 1835 A. T. Malkin Hist. Parallels II. i. 15 That eloquence, and skill in word-splitting, by which..it could be shown that a man could speak and be silent at the same time. 1949 Mod. Philol. 47 16 Other cases of the critic's word-catching or word-splitting, as in the hero's farewell to the dead Polonius, ‘I took thee for thy better’, or in Ophelia's lament after the nunnery scene, ‘And I of ladies most deject and wretched’. 2002 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. b6 France, Russia and China finally agreed, after more than two months of tedious negotiations and word-splitting, to endorse it. < as lemmas |
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