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ECLAIRCISSEMENT

Definition: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

ECLAIRCISSEMENT

Transitive verb

1. The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ECLAIRCISSEMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Synonyms within Context: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference; (deduction); illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation; eclaircissement, mot d'enigme.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Use in Literature: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There, no more than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any eclaircissement.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

Language Translations for "eclaircissement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

eclaircissementay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "ECLAIRCISSEMENT": eclaircissements. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ECLAIRCISSEMENT"

Words rhyming with "ECLAIRCISSEMENT" (pronounced 'E*clair"cisse*ment'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acknowledgment, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advertisement, Advisement, Affamishment, Affeerment, Afforcement, Afforciament, Affordment, Affranchisement, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggrandizement, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Ambushment, Amendment, Amercement, Amerciament, Amortizement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement, Annulment, Anointment, Antepredicament, Apartment, Appallment, Appeachment, Appeasement, Appertainment, Appliment, Applotment, Appointment, Apportionment, Appraisement, Apprizement, Approachment, Appropriament, Arbitrament, Armament, Arraignment, Arrestment, Arrondissement, Ascertainment, Aspirement, Assailment, Assentment, Assessment, assignment, Assithment, Assortment, Assuagement, Assythment, Astonishment, Astoundment, Attachment, Attainment, Attaintment, Attemperament, Attemperment, Attendement, Attendment, Attirement, Attornment, auripigment, Availment, Avengement, Averment, Avertiment, Avisement, Avouchment, Awakenment, Babblement, Bafflement, Bailment, Balancement, Banishment, Baptizement, Basement, Batement, Battlement, Bedevilment, Bedizenment, Befriendment, Beguilement, Benightment, Benumbment, Bequeathment, Bereavement, Beseechment, Besetment, Besiegement, Bestowment, Betrayment, Betrothment, Betrustment, Betterment, Bevelment, Bewailment, Bewilderment, Bewitchment, Bewrayment, Bickerment, Biliment, Bisegment, Blandishment, Blastment, Blazonment, Blemishment, Bodement, Bombardment, Bouleversement, Brabblement, Branglement, Bushment, Butment, Cajolement, Cantonment, Capillament, Casement, Catchment, Cerement, Cessment, Chastisement, Chatoyment, Cherishment, Cloyment, Coadjument, Coadjustment, Coagment, Coestablishment, Colliquament, Comfortment, Commandment, Commencement, Commitment, Compartment, Compilement, Completement, Complotment, Comportment, Concealment, Concrement, Condiment, Condolement, Confinement, Confutement, Congealment, Conjurement, Consignment, Containment, Contenement, Contentment, Contrivement, Controlment, Convincement, Copartment, Counterrolment, Couplement, Crassiment, Curtailment, Dazzlement, Debarment, Debasement, Debatement, Debauchment, Deboshment, Decampment, Decidement, Decipherment, Declarement, Decorament, Decorement, Decrement, Deducement, Defacement, Deferment, Definement, Deforcement, Defraudment, Defrayment, Degarnishment, Degradement, Delayment, Delineament, Delirament, Demolishment, Denotement, D'enouement, Denouncement, Department, Deplorement, Deportment, Depravement, Depriment, Deprivement, Derailment, Derangement, Derivement, Desightment, Designment, Despisement, Despoilment, Detachment, Detainment, Determent, Dethronement, development, Devilment, Devolvement, Devotement, Diducement, Diminishment, Dimplement, Diriment, Disablement, Disagreement, Disannulment, Disappointment, Disarmament, Disarrangement, Disarrayment, Disaugment, Disavowment, Disbandment, Disbarment, Disbursement, Discernment, Discontentment, Discouragement, Discoverment, Diseasement, Disembarkment, Disembarrassment, Disembodiment, Disemboguement, Disembowelment, Disemployment, Disenchantment, Disencouragement, Disendowment, Disengagement, Disentanglement, Disenthrallment, Disestablishment, Disfigurement, Disfranchisement, Disfurnishment, Disgorgement, Disguisement, Disheartenment, Disillusionment, Disimprovement, Disinteressment, Disinterment, Disinthrallment, Dislodgment, Dismastment, Dismemberment, Disobligement, Disownment, Disparagement, Dispatchment, Dispiritment, Disportment, Disposement, Disquietment, Dissepiment, Dissettlement, Disseverment, Distemperment, Distillment, Distinguishment, Divergement, Divertisement, Divertissement, Divestment, Divinement, Divorcement, Dreariment, Dwindlement, Easement, 'Ecrasement, Effacement, Eggement, Ejectment, Eliquament, Eloignment, Eloinment, Elopement, Embalmment, Embankment, Embarkment, Embarrassment, Embasement, Embattlement, Embayment, Embedment, Embellishment, Embezzlement, Embitterment, Emblazonment, Emblement, Embodiment, Emboitement, Embossment, Embowelment, Emboyssement, Embracement, Embranchment, Embreathement, Embroilment, Embushment, Emolument, Empalement, Emplacement, Employment, Empoisonment, Empressement, Enablement, Enactment, Enamorment, Encampment, Encasement, Encashment, Enchainment, Enchantment, Enclavement, Encomberment, Encompassment, Encouragement, Encroachment, Encrustment, Encumberment, Encystment, Endamagement, Endangerment, Endearment, Endeavorment, Endictment, Endowment, Enduement, Endurement, Enfeeblement, Enfeoffment, Enfoldment, Enforcement, Enfranchisement, Engagement, Engorgement, Engraffment, Engrailment. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ECLAIRCISSEMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: criticalness, electricians.

-4 letters: centralises, centralisms, ceramicists, electrician, insectaries, lemniscates, linecasters, mineralises, resiliences, reticencies, semicircles, streamlines.

-5 letters: accentless, ancestries, armistices, asceticism, calcimines, cartelises, celerities, centerless, centesimal, centralise, centralism, ceramicist, clematises, clemencies, creaminess, cretinisms, criminates, easterlies, eliminates, enamelists, eremitical, interclass, interlaces, larcenists, lemniscate, lienteries, linearises, linecaster, literacies, masseteric, melanistic, mercantile, mescalines, mesenteric, mesnalties, militances, mineralise, miscreants, miscreates, misentries, misrelates, relicenses, reminisces, resilience, resistance, reticences, saliencies, scarcities, semestrial, semicircle, seminaries, seminarist, semisecret, serenities, smelteries, stencilers, streamline, timeliness, timescales.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: eclaircissements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ECLAIRCISSEMENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 43 4C 41 49 52 43 49 53 53 45 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.-.    .-..    .-    ..    .-.    -.-.    ..    ...    ...    .    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000011 01001100 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000011 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#67 &#76 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0043 004C 0041 0049 0052 0043 0049 0053 0053 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

393746354352374353533947394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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