Word Meanings - SPELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.

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• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• ORTHOGRAPHY
  1. The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious. When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation,
• FORMATION
  The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• EFFORMATION
  The act of giving shape or form. Ray.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• CONFORMATION
  1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
• MALEFORMATION
  See MALFORMATION
• MALFORMATION
  Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
• RE-FORMATION
  The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
• INORTHOGRAPHY
  Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling. Feltham.
• REFORMATION
  1. The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire
• MISFORMATION
  Malformation.
• UNREFORMATION
  Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. Bp. Hall.