Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

smectymnuan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: smec-tym-nu-an
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.

Example Sentences

"They are shoutings of a layman expecting the fall of the besieged Jericho, but with no more definite preadvertisement of the policy that should follow the fall than was implied in the fact that the priests who were loudest in blowing the rams' horns for the surrender were Milton's five Presbyterian friends, the Smectymnuans."

Etymology

From Smectymnuus + -an.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Smectymnuus

Inflected Forms

Smectymnuans (plural)

Questions

What does smectymnuan mean?: A member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
Where does smectymnuan come from?: From Smectymnuus + -an.

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