panlingual
adjEtymology From pan- + lingual.
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Involving or encompassing all languages.
- On the other hand, however, Linguas scholarly audience could have responded to this ostentatious parade of panlingual' skill as a confirmation of their own erudition.1998, Jonathan Gil Harris, Foreign bodies and the body politic, page 112:
- […] it is not interlingual translation that betrays the stutterer; it is, rather, panlingual stuttering.2005, Marc Shell, Stutter, page 51:
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- We spoke in a private panlingual gibberish. We were not German or European or English or Canadian; we were flesh detached from time and place.2007, Stephen Henigan, A Grave in the Air, page 32:
- Related terms
- omnilingual, panlinguistic