alloy

Definitions

1. A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
   countable, uncountable
2. A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
   countable, uncountable
4. Fusion, marriage, combination.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“gold without alloy”

“Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have⟳[…]”

“Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure.”

“The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.”

“SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show⟳ business.””

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