"homœograph" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: homœographs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} homœograph (plural homœographs)
  1. Alternative spelling of homeograph Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: homeograph
    Sense id: en-homœograph-en-noun-HZ71FXfE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "This makes it unlikely that in them comist is a homœograph for comsist. But the words are very similar in shape, and careless reading of an original comsist may have resulted in substitution of comist.\nAssuming such a difficult original, bigge, bete, boten, antendyn are substitutions guided by the context, and pinke on probably a gloss of a homœograph or misreading mynde."
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