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Definition of sesquipedalianism in English English dictionary
- A very long word
- The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing
- A word that is a foot-and-a-half long; a very long word
- Sesquipedality
sesquipedalianism
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() Surface form analyzed as sesquipedalian + -ism, from sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedalian (“of the foot”). From Latin sesquipedalis (“a foot and a half long; in metaphorical use, “of an unnatural length, huge, big””), from sesqui (“one and a half times as great”) + pedalis (“foot”).From A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language, Compiled Chiefly from the Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann'', edited by F. P. Leverett, Wilkins, Carter & Co., Boston, 1849.Resimler
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