covery
covery noun: a dispelling of false or misleading notions.
Noun
covery (plural coveries)
- A dispelling of false or misleading notions.
- The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what...1912, Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, London: A. C. Fifield, page 180
- This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries, to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental covery is that the expressions “reductional division” and “equational division,” those bogies of our schooldays, are...1937, C. D. Darlington, J. B. S. Haldane, “Foreword”, in Recent Advances in Cytology, page vi
Examples of covery in a sentence
- The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery.1912, Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, London: A. C. Fifield, page 180:
- A fundamental covery is that the expressions “reductional division” and “equational division,” those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.1937, C. D. Darlington, J. B. S. Haldane, “Foreword”, in Recent Advances in Cytology, page vi:
Forms of covery
| plural | coveries |
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Origin of covery
Back-formation from discovery.
Questions about covery
- What does covery mean?
- Covery means a dispelling of false or misleading notions.
- How do you use covery in a sentence?
- The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery.
- What part of speech is covery?
- Covery is a noun.
- What is the plural of covery?
- The plural of covery is coveries.
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