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mordancy

mordancy noun: the state or quality of being mordant.

Noun

mordancy (countable and uncountable, plural mordancies)

  1. The state or quality of being mordant.
    • Despite their name--and the name of their record--any morbidity or malice the Ships harbor is aggressively sublimated into relentlessly upbeat, largely staccato indie pop, with just a tinge of mordancy in the lyrics and the lap steel (which they underutilize criminally).2007 February 16, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader
    • But its overall feel is a stark and regretful one, with sentimentality ("Catching an all-night station / Somewhere in Louisiana / Sounds like 1963 / But for now it sounds like heaven") vying for dominance with mordancy ("Driving down sunny 44 highway / There's a beach there known for cancer").1995 August 4, Bill Wyman, “Son Volt”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of mordancy

pluralmordancies

Questions about mordancy

What does mordancy mean?
Mordancy means the state or quality of being mordant.
What part of speech is mordancy?
Mordancy is a noun.
What is the plural of mordancy?
The plural of mordancy is mordancies.

Words near mordancy in the dictionary

  1. mordaciously
  2. mordacities
  3. mordacity
  4. Mordad
  5. mordancies
  6. mordancy
  7. mordant
  8. mordant dye
  9. mordanted
  10. mordanting
  11. mordantings

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