She had met men who ran to polysyllables and pompousness, but she had never known the polysyllables to accompany so simple a manner.
Monosyllables or polysyllablesaccented on the last syllable are "single" rhymes.
Such polysyllables may be admitted here and there in a long piece, but when they constitute the whole or even a majority of the rhymes, the writer is imposing on his readers.
The rhythmic accentuation of foreign proper names both in disyllables and in polysyllables varies.
But the fire of cross-examination melted all his polysyllables into guesswork and hearsay.
In polysyllables there was a secondary stress on the alternate vowels.
The ancient vowel-quantities were preserved only in the penultima of polysyllables (where they determined the stress); in all other positions the original system of quantities had given place to a new system based mainly on rhythm.
Polysyllables which have their nominative plural in a or an, form the genitive like the nominative; leabhar m.
Some polysyllablesin ach add e or ean to the genitive singular; as, mullach m.
But it appears more agreeable to the analogy of inflection that such polysyllables should now be written without an e in the genitive.
Hence this rule has long obtained in Gaelic orthography, that in polysyllables the last vowel of one syllable and the first vowel of the subsequent syllable must be both of the same quality[23].
The genitive plural of monosyllables and masculine polysyllables is twofold, like the nominative singular, and like the nominative plural; as, righ m.
The genitive of polysyllables is like the nominative; of monosyllables is made by adding e to the nominative; as, caraid m.
Gaelic Polysyllables are accented on the first syllable.
A few femininepolysyllables in eir form their genitive like monosyllables; as, inneir f.
It appears a fruitless and rather chimerical attempt to propose a system of directions by which all Polysyllables whatever may be resolved into component parts, and traced to a root of one syllable.
Most polysyllables whereof the last vowel is broad, are masculine.
The genitive plural of feminine polysyllablesis like the nominative plural only; as, amhainn f.
Polysyllables characterised by ea change ea into i; as, fitheach m.
The passion for analysing has even induced some to assert that all true Gaelic Primitives consist of but one syllable, that all Polysyllables are either derived or compounded, and therefore that there is room to search for their etymon.
He possessed a vocabulary of polysyllables that never failed to confound an opponent in argument, and all the township could tell how he once vanquished a great university graduate, who was visiting Captain Herbert at Lake Oro.
Away went his life of shadows--his career of watery polysyllables meandering through the great desert into the Dead Sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polysyllables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
