alternacy

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noun

alternateness; alternation

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounalternacy (countable and uncountable, plural alternacies)

plural alternacies

  1. countableuncountablealternateness; alternation

    the alternacy of gloom and vivid flashes disturbed the sight

    1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
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