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
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
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 Charles Wentworth Upham
One of the archaic absurdities of legislative practice remaining in Commons is that a single Member has autocratic power to delay progress of particular Bills approaching Committee stage by murmuring or shouting a magic dissyllable.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
In the first and fourth scenes the word “virtuous” was used as a dissyllable; in the third it was used as a trisyllable.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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