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
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
"Or your 'Ti-mes' newspaper!" cried another, converting the title of the Thunderer into a strange dissyllable.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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 H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
But the single word which survives in the family recollection is a dissyllable, the word for milk, which was cully.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
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