ennealogy

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noun

A set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as nine individual works.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounennealogy (plural ennealogies)

plural ennealogies

  1. rareA set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as nine individual works.

    […] George Passant, the protagonist of C.P. Snow’s second novel in the Strangers and Brothers ennealogy […]

    2009, Roger Cooke, Review of Naming Infinity, page 11
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    These works […] appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an “ennealogy” (as it were), perhaps “polylogy,” for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.

    1992, Andrew Lawrence Markus (English quoter), August Pfizmaier (German author), “Über den Text eines japanischen Drama’s” (1870), page 115, quoted in The Willow in Autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842, Harvard University Asia Center, page 76

    Of course, nobody in their right mind would want to commit to an octalogy, ennealogy, or decalogy—or even more!— unless you were a fan of, say, Lemony Snicket

    2011, Ralph Raab, The Tamerlane Trap, iUniverse, page 1

Translations

French ennéalogie
  • ennéalogieA set of nine works of art that are connected
German Ennealogie
  • EnnealogieA set of nine works of art that are connected
Portuguese nonalogia, enealogía
  • nonalogiaA set of nine works of art that are connected
  • enealogíaA set of nine works of art that are connected
Spanish nonalogía, enealogía
  • nonalogíaA set of nine works of art that are connected
  • enealogíaA set of nine works of art that are connected
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Chicago

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