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parergies

parergies is the plural of parergy.

Meaning of parergy

Noun

parergy (plural parergies)

  1. (obsolete) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous; a trifle
    • Wherefore the Scriptures being serious, and commonly omitting such parergies, it will be unreasonable from hence to condemn all laughter1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about parergies

What is parergies the plural of?
Parergies is the plural of parergy.

Words near parergies in the dictionary

  1. parepididymis
  2. pareptide
  3. parer
  4. parerga
  5. parergal
  6. parergies
  7. parergon
  8. parergonic
  9. parergons
  10. parergy
  11. parers

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