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diachronic

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di·a·chron·ic  (d-krnk)
adj.
Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.
[From dia- + Greek khronos, time.]
dia·chroni·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.diachronic - used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics"
historical
language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
synchronic - concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"


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A kind of false confidence which would deny the possibility of what Norman Cantor labeled Diachronic Philology in his Chapter "The Oxford Fantasists" in his 1991 Inventing The Middle Ages in describing Tolkien's lifetime project.
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And yet, coersubmission and terror converge so symmetrically in the synchronic and diachronic time of her narration that as Hemings tells her story, not only does her anguish recede, but her interpellation is literally punctuated by the transposition of her master's desires and power as somehow her own.
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His is a diachronic, historical-critical reading, with ample evidence of the commentator's philological skills.
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