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geomaunt

geomaunt noun: geomant.

Noun

geomaunt (plural geomaunts)

  1. geomant
    • A remote sky, prolonged to the sea's brim: One rock-point standing buffeted alone, Vexed at its base with a foul beast unknown, Hell-birth of geomaunt and teraphim: A knight, and a winged creature bearing him, Reared at the rock: a woman fettered there, Leaning into the hollow with loose hair And...1849 October 18, wikipedia:Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letter to William Michael Rossetti
    • Geomaunt and teraphim make a bizarre pair. The O.E.D. gives Rossetti’s sonnet as reference for ‘geomant’ or ‘geomaunt,’ one skilled in ‘geomancy,’ the art of divining the future by observing terrestrial shapes or the ciphers drawn when handfuls of earth are scattered (geomancy occurs in Buchner’s...1975, wikipedia:George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

Forms of geomaunt

pluralgeomaunts

Origin of geomaunt

From the Italian geomante.

Questions about geomaunt

What does geomaunt mean?
Geomaunt means geomant.
What part of speech is geomaunt?
Geomaunt is a noun.
What is the plural of geomaunt?
The plural of geomaunt is geomaunts.

Words near geomaunt in the dictionary

  1. geomatic
  2. geomatical
  3. geomaticist
  4. geomaticists
  5. geomatics
  6. geomaunt
  7. geomax
  8. geomaxed
  9. geomaxes
  10. geomaxing
  11. geomaxx

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