phœnomenon
English
Etymology
Possibly influenced by confusion with terms such as phœnix or Phœnician.
Noun
phœnomenon (plural phœnomena)
- (hypercorrect) Obsolete form of phenomenon.
- 1919, Theodore Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in a Case of Blasphemy, page #141:
- Nay more ; that the construction employed to justify the ‘Sedition Act,’ would exhibit a phœnomenon without a parrallel in the political world.
- 1919, Theodore Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in a Case of Blasphemy, page #141: