dissyllable
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Of course, Webster allows that it was "formerly often" a dissyllable, and Shakespeare found it handier thus six times out of seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aches, formerly a dissyllable; examples from Swift, Hudibras, and Shakespeare; John Kemble’s use of the word, i.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
No need for more than that sad dissyllable.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Thus Marie may be three-syllabled as above, or answer to mie as a dissyllable; but vierge is always, I think, dissyllabic, vier-ge, with even stronger accent on the -ge, for the Latin -go.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
There are twenty-two monosyllables to three of greater length, or rather to the same dissyllable thrice repeated; and that too in common parlance proncounced as a monosyllable.
From Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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