semperannual
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕm'pərăʹnyo͞oəl, IPA(key): /ˌsɛmpəˈɹænjuːəl/
Adjective
semperannual (not comparable)
- (rare nonce word) Perpetually perennial.
- 1861, George Meredith, Evan Harrington, page 239:
- [S]upposing Lord Mayor’s footmen to be plumed like estridges — gorgeous as the sun at Midsummer — what must Lord Mayors be, and semperannual Lords, and so on to the pinnacle?
References
- “semper-annual a.” defined as a derived term of the prefix “‖semper-”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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