What does onomatechny mean?
Onomatechny means (rare) prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy.
To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer
...believing that there was a mystical connection between things and their names. Plato was a firm believer in this form of augury or onomatechy
Finally, by combining onomatechny, history and imagination, he reconstructed what he assumed to be the original North British version of the Tristan fable
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Onomatechny means (rare) prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy.
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To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer
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