camonian
/kəˈmoʊniən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is emphatically true; and hence the Portuguese Epic has been universally recognised as wholesome and tonic reading, in fact, the very reverse of a certain “poisonous honey”; and the general directness of the Camonian style, and the straightforwardness with which the Great Portuguese calls a spade (when he must name it) a spade, is a pleasant contrast to that over-development, or rather abuse of Shelleyism, which in this stage of English versification suggests the “tale full of sound and fury,” and of mighty little meaning, though the words seem very strong."
- "Brazil's strong participation in the Camoens Celebration reflected the poet's influence on the nineteenth-century letters of that South American nation. Brazilian poets no longer imitated him, having developed along their own national lines, but Brazil's Emperor Dom Pedro II (1840-1889) was a Camonian enthusiast."
- "The Camonian figure and its discursive circulation have been elaborated within an evolving tradition, which in modernity is characterized by a progressive self-consciousness of nationhood."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: Camoniānus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈmoʊniən/
- British English: /kəˈməʊniən/
Inflected Forms
more Camonian (comparative)
most Camonian (superlative)