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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word having five syllables.
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The three paradoxers last named and myself have a pentasyllable convention, under which, though we go far beyond civility, we keep within civilization.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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