Meaning of Learnedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being learned.
   countable, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of learnedness.
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Born in 1717, the son of a cobbler, Carmontelle insinuated himself into French society through his learnedness and charisma, traits that were in high demand in a culture rife with ignored wives and ennui.”

“Learnèdness may affect all the morphemes in a word, or only the base, or only an affix.”

“Malkiel, however, “granted in principle the existence of a significant learned transmission of these clusters” (1963-64: 157), so even when the attribution of learnèdness is as statistically dubious as it is with fl- Malkiel felt unable to dispute it.”

“The first observation to be made about these forms concerns their learnèdness, or at least their learnèdness with these particular stress patterns.”

“Though occasionally, he inserted a bit of French or English when the context was appropriate, his prose was not inflated with the Latin or Greek tags and snippets that were often superfluous but gave to many 18ᵗʰ-century writers the aura of “learnèdness.””

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