"onomatopoesy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1892, Leonard Landois, William Stirling, A Text-book of Human Physiology, page 664:",
          "text": "Another means is the imitation of sounds by the organ of speech, constituting onomatopoesy , e.g., the hissing of a stream, the roll of thunder, the tumult of a storm, whistling, etc.",
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          "ref": "1893 July, Professor Sully, “A New Book on Infant Psychology”, in Journal of Education, volume 15, number 288, page 387:",
          "text": "It is to be remembered, too, in saying that the child imitates such familiar onomatopoesies as “bow-wow” (French “oua-oua.”), “tic-tic” (French “tic-tac”) from the nurse, that the nursery tradition of employing these sounds is probably the result of a respectful attention to the spontaneous namings of earlier generations of babies.",
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          "text": "Because of this difference the onomatopoesy of the original has been lost and also some of the alliterative quality of Finnish poetry.",
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          "ref": "1968, Yorick Blumenfeld, Seesaw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe, page 109:",
          "text": "Even Hoxha's wife, Nexhmije (whose name is genuine onomatopoesy) , contributes by attacking the parasitic, opportunistic tendencies of Albanian youth.",
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          "ref": "2004, Frederick Millet Salter, H. V. Weekes, The Art of Writing, page 114:",
          "text": "A little child is not content to call a cow, a cow; it is a moo-cow, and a dog is a bow-wow; but if onomatopoesy is a child-like quality, then our language itself is the kingdom of children.",
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