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sillabication

sillabication is the obsolete spelling of syllabication.

Meaning of syllabication

Noun

syllabication (countable and uncountable, plural syllabications)

  1. The act of syllabifying; syllabification.
    • I sweare unto thee by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet, and Sillabication of the letters.1631, James Mabbe, tr. of Fernando de Rojas’s 1499 The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, The Tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea, chapter 18, page 180

Questions about sillabication

What is sillabication the obsolete spelling of?
Sillabication is the obsolete spelling of syllabication.

Words near sillabication in the dictionary

  1. silky-haired
  2. silkyscale
  3. silkyscales
  4. sill
  5. Silla
  6. sillabication
  7. sillabub
  8. sillabubs
  9. silladar
  10. silladars
  11. sillage

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