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perdendosi

perdendosi noun: a gradual fading away.

Noun

perdendosi

  1. A gradual fading away.
    • Then towards the end you hear them both interlaced, and both are being resolved in a perdendosi.1958, Edgar Mittelhölzer, The Old Blood, page 495
    • For the AnC period, Karlgren (Études, pp. 38-39) describes the Four tones p'ing ('even perdendosi'), shang ('rising perdendosi'), ch'u ('probably falling perdendosi'), ju (ex abrupto), but then ...1959, University of California Publications in East Asiatic Philology

Questions about perdendosi

What does perdendosi mean?
Perdendosi means a gradual fading away.
What part of speech is perdendosi?
Perdendosi is a noun.

Words near perdendosi in the dictionary

  1. Percydale
  2. percylite
  3. percyquinnin
  4. Percé
  5. perdendo
  6. perdendosi
  7. perdeuterate
  8. perdeuterated
  9. perdeuteration
  10. Perdew
  11. Perdews

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