orthoepical
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editorthoepical (not comparable)
- Synonym of orthoepic.
- 1923, Israel Zangwill, The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes[1]:
- One Sunday afternoon a friendly orthoepical difference of this nature arose even as Mrs. Maper sat in her palatial drawing room waiting for callers, and they repaired to the library, Mrs. Maper arguing the point with loud good humour.
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editReferences
edit- “orthoepical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.