Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POL'Y-PHO-NISM, or POL'Y-PHO-NY
POL'Y-PHO-NISM, or POL'Y-PHO-NY, n. [Gr. πολυς, many, and φωνη, sound.]
Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo. – Derham.
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