homœograph

See also: homoeograph

English

Noun

homœograph (plural homœographs)

1. Alternative spelling of homeograph
   • 1960, William Langland and George Kane, Piers Plowman, pages 154,^{1} 161,^{2} and 163^{3} (University of London, Athlone Press):

     ^{1} This makes it unlikely that in them comist is a homœograph for comsist. But the words are very similar in shape, and careless reading of an original comsist may have resulted in substitution of comist.

     ^{2} Assuming such a difficult original, bigge, bete, boten, antendyn are substitutions guided by the context, and pinke on probably a gloss of a homœograph or misreading mynde.

     ^{3} At XI 80 the difficult original whyes is confirmed by the occurrence of the homœograph weyes and the near-gloss priuytes among the variants.