"tergeminous" meaning in All languages combined

See tergeminous on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Rhymes: -ɛmɪnəs Etymology: From Latin tergeminus, from ter (“thrice”) + geminus (“doubled at birth, twin-born”). Compare trigeminous. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|tergeminus}} Latin tergeminus Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} tergeminous (not comparable)
  1. Threefold. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-tergeminous-en-adj-scBo5tld Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1851, “Lines in commemoration of the Auld Brig”, in Competing and Other Poems on the Auld Brig, page 4",
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          "text": "The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.",
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          "text": "Chappies like Junius Henri, whose sidewheel whiskers and tergeminous titles are giving them spinal curvature, may fancy hysterical maids; but a sure-enough American, competent to raise a crop of world-compellers all bearing his trade-mark, prefers a Grace Darling or a Molly Pitcher.",
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