"lexiphane" meaning in English

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        "2": "lexi-",
        "3": "-phane",
        "t2": "appearing",
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      "expansion": "By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”)",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lexiphanes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lexiphane (plural lexiphanes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "English terms prefixed with lexi-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -phane",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 18, Laurelin Vernet, “Re: BIG STEVE'S STARGATE REVIEW: \"Sight Unseen\" **SPOILERS**”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet):",
          "text": "At least I'm not lexiphanic; I'm just a lexiphane. :))",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 August 26, Lalbert1, “Re: Word Usage”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):",
          "text": "That online essayist probably strives to be a logodaedalist, but he's just a lexiphane.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson, page 166:",
          "text": "Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he \"ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions\" (p. xvii).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "One who uses words pretentiously."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) One who uses words pretentiously."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lexiphanic"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lexiphane"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "lexi-",
        "3": "-phane",
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      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”)",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lexiphanes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lexiphane (plural lexiphanes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lexiphanic"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English eponyms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 January 18, Laurelin Vernet, “Re: BIG STEVE'S STARGATE REVIEW: \"Sight Unseen\" **SPOILERS**”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet):",
          "text": "At least I'm not lexiphanic; I'm just a lexiphane. :))",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 August 26, Lalbert1, “Re: Word Usage”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):",
          "text": "That online essayist probably strives to be a logodaedalist, but he's just a lexiphane.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson, page 166:",
          "text": "Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he \"ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions\" (p. xvii).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who uses words pretentiously."
      ],
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        "(rare) One who uses words pretentiously."
      ],
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        "rare"
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    }
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  "word": "lexiphane"
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