Univocalic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of writing that uses only one of the vowels.
Adjective
  1. 1
    That uses instances of only one vowel. not-comparable

    "Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used."

Example

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"Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used."

Etymology

From uni- + vocalic.

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