ology
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ology
First recorded in 1795–1805; extracted from words like biology, geology, etc., where the element -logy is preceded by the connecting vowel -o-; see -o-
Example Sentences
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On the other side were 1,000,000 dissident Berbers, led by two of Ben Bella's wartime comrades whose ide ology is vague, but who oppose his ruthless power drive and his economically disastrous rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do not shy from study of the science of mind because it is an "ology" and therefore may seem hard.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
Let us suppose that no ology had ever been the suitor.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
I would rather they chose some other ology.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John
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