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nomancy

nomancy is the obsolete form of onomancy.

Meaning of onomancy

Noun

onomancy (usually uncountable, plural onomancies)

  1. (usually) divination by the letters of a name; nomancy

Origin of nomancy

Compare French nomancie, nomance.

Questions about nomancy

What is nomancy the obsolete form of?
Nomancy is the obsolete form of onomancy.

Words near nomancy in the dictionary

  1. nomady
  2. noman
  3. noman's
  4. noman's land
  5. noman's lands
  6. nomancy
  7. Nomansland
  8. NOMAP
  9. NOMAPs
  10. nomarch
  11. nomarchies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nomancy (page history and authors); onomancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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