What does tergeminous mean?
Tergeminous means Threefold..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Threefold..
My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator.
I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude.
The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
Chappies like Junius Henri, whose sidewheel whiskers and tergeminous titles are giving them spinal curvature, may fancy hysterical maids; but a sure-enough American, competent to raise a crop of world-compellers all bearing his trade-mark, prefers a Grace Darling or a Molly Pitcher.
Use tergeminous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tergeminous means Threefold..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator.
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