comminglement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

commingle +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

comminglement (plural comminglements)

  1. (archaic) mix, mixture
    • 1923, James Huneker, Old Fogy[1]:
      There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.
    • 1910, James Huneker, Promenades of an Impressionist[2]:
      In a word, Velasquez was a puzzling comminglement of the classic and the realist.
    • 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree), The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls[3]:
      The shadows of the men, instead of an unintelligible comminglement with the dusk, were now sharp and distinct, and the light grotesquely duplicated them till the cave seemed full of beings who were not there a moment before--strange gnomes, clumsy and burly, slow of movement, but swift and mysterious of appearance and disappearance.