contextomy meaning

Definition of contextomy in English Dictionary

• NounPLcontextomiesPREcon-SUF-tomy
  1. The practice (or act) of quoting a person (or people) out of context, often with the aim of winning an argument, often intending obfuscation of the quote's actual meaning.
     1. …saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Morphemes
     • Suffixes
       • Words by suffix
         • Words suffixed with -tomy
  2. Nouns
     • Countable nouns

Other Vocabulary

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