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
In stanza 1, line 2, the trisyllabic word "violets" appears as a dissyllable.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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
As the broad sound became disused, to a great extent, about this time, the name was spoken, as well as spelled, as a dissyllable, the vowel having its long sound.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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