"mordancy" meaning in All languages combined

See mordancy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: mordancies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mordancy (countable and uncountable, plural mordancies)
  1. The state or quality of being mordant. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mordancy-en-noun-KwyyJ9m7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1995 August 4, Bill Wyman, “Son Volt”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "But its overall feel is a stark and regretful one, with sentimentality (\"Catching an all-night station / Somewhere in Louisiana / Sounds like 1963 / But for now it sounds like heaven\") vying for dominance with mordancy (\"Driving down sunny 44 highway / There's a beach there known for cancer\").",
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          "text": "And yet this joy that is basic in Synge, this exaltation, is no more basic than emotions and attitudes of mind that are often, in other men, at war with joy and exaltation--irony and grotesquerie, keen insight into \"the black thoughts of men,\" and insistent awareness of the quick passing of all good things, diablerie and mordancy.",
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