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
Caesar's speech:— She dreamt last night, she saw my statue— No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced 'heroes' as a trisyllable than dissyllable.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The lines are happy in inspiration and finished in form, having only one possible defect, the use of "heralding" as a dissyllable.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
The probability is that the vowel a, formerly, as in most words, had its broad sound, so that the pronunciation was scarcely perceptibly different, when used as a dissyllable or monosyllable.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
In the First Edition, "Giamschid" was written as a word of three syllables; so D'Herbelot has it; but I am told Richardson reduces it to a dissyllable, and writes "Jamshid."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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