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The act or process of representing by letters.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or "incommunicable name" of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.

he letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.