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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛskwɪpɪˈdæləti/

名詞

sesquipedality (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sesquipedalities)

1. An instance or condition of being sesquipedalian.
   • 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume II, 2nd (1st London) edition, London: Printed for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, OCLC 976409157, page 58–59:

     Imagine to yourſelf a little, ſquat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a ſeſquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a ſerjeant in the horſe-guards.