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sybilline

sybilline is the misspelling of sibylline.

Meaning of sibylline

Adjective

sibylline (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
    • Cleopatra immediately comes down to the chair of state; seizes Ptolemy and drags him out of his seat; then takes his place in the chair. Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity.1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
    Synonyms:
    sibyllic
    1. (broadly) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
    2. (broadly) Occult, mysterious.
  2. Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)

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Questions about sybilline

What is sybilline the misspelling of?
Sybilline is the misspelling of sibylline.

Words near sybilline in the dictionary

  1. sybil
  2. Sybil attack
  3. Sybil attacks
  4. Sybill
  5. Sybilla
  6. sybilline
  7. sybils
  8. sybo
  9. syboe
  10. syboes
  11. sybos

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