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MINORIES

Date "MINORIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1921. (references)

Specialty Definition: MINORIES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Minories (3 syl.) (London). The cloister of the Minims or, rather, Minoresses (nuns of St. Clare). The Minims were certain reformed Franciscans, founded by St. Francis de Paula in the fifteenth century. They went barefooted, and wore a coarse, black woollen stuff, fastened with a woollen girdle, which they never put off, day or night. The word is derived from the Latin minimus (the least), in allusion to the text, "I am less than the least of all saints". (Eph. iii. 8). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Commercial Usage: MINORIES

Domain	Title
Books	Peter Coker, RA: [catalogue of] a retrospective exhibition organised by the Victor Batte-Lay Trust [at] the Minories, Colchester, October 16th-November 4th, 1972 (reference) Eric Ravilious, 1903-1942: [catalogue of] an exhibition organised by the Victor Batte-Lay Trust [held at] the Minories, Colchester, 20th January-19th February, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21st March-9th April, the Morley Gallery, London, 17th April-13th (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: MINORIES

"MINORIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "MINORIES" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	75%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	25%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: MINORIES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
minories	3
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Anagrams: MINORIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: ironies, merinos, noisier.
	-2 letters: eonism, imines, ionise, irones, isomer, merino, miners, minors, moires, monies, nosier, rimose, senior, sermon.
	-3 letters: emirs, enorm, eosin, imine, imino, irone, irons, meson, miens, miner, mines, minis, minor, mires, miser, moire, monie, mores, morns, morse, nisei, noirs, noise, nomes, noris, norms, omens, omers, ornis, osier, reins, resin, rimes, rinse.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: heroinism, immersion, misorient, missioner, remission.
	+2 letters: acrimonies, agrimonies, enormities, foreignism, heroinisms, immersions, impression, imprisoned, iridosmine, memorising, micronizes, minicourse, ministroke, minorities, misjoinder, misorients, missioners, monitories, moronities, permission, reemission, reimposing, remissions, vermilions.
	+3 letters: ambiversion, creationism, dominickers, eliminators, emigrations, foreignisms, hemosiderin, imprecision, impressions, inharmonies, inseminator, iridosmines, isomerizing, matrimonies, meridionals, microclines, microinches, minicourses, ministrokes, miscreation, misinformed, misjoinders, misordering, misoriented, missionizer, modernising, modernistic, modernities, neuroticism, nitrosamine, normalities, orientalism, parsimonies, patrimonies, permissions, prehominids, readmission, reemissions, regionalism, revisionism, romanticise, sermonizing, temporising, thermionics, vermillions.
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Alternative Orthography: MINORIES

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

4D 49 4E 4F 52 49 45 53

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)

01001101 01001001 01001110 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#78 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 004E 004F 0052 0049 0045 0053

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

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

4743484952433953

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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